Re: PL/pgSQL 2

On 09/02/2014 09:40 AM, David G Johnston wrote:
> Random thought as I wrote that: how about considering how pl/pgsql
> functionality can be generalize so that it is a database API that
> another language can call?  In that way the server would drive the core
> functionality and the language would simply be an interpreter that
> enforces its specific notion of acceptable syntax.

That's pretty much what we already have with the SPI and procedural
language handler infrastructure. PL/Perl, PL/Python, etc exist because
we have this.

What do you see as missing from the current infrastructure? What can't
be done that should be able to be done in those languages?

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