Programmability
- stored procedures
- can call out to external routines (external stored procedures)
- internal programming language(s): - flow control and loops - user-defined (compound) structures -
recursion - exceptions - can return error messages to clients - object-oriented
- debugger supplied for stored procedure language(s)
- triggers - triggers can cascade (nested triggers) - multiple triggers per action per row
- standard database client APIs supported in addition to native API (e.g. ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, etc.)
- revision of ODBC driver supplied
- revision of JDBC driver supplied
- precompilers supplied for which languages:
- cursors can scroll backwards as well as forwards
- message queuing services
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org