Re: new procedural language - PL/R

> >>Any strong feelings on whether this is necessary for a first release?
> >
> > No. I'm not sure you'd really need triggers written in R ever ;-)
>
> Yeah, that's what I figured too.

Indeed. R sounds like it might be an interesting platform from which to
do "data mining," and in that sort of context, you're almost exclusively
reading data, so the loss of triggers would be of no great importance.

What might be "nifty" would be to have some mappings that did Clever
Transformations of Queries Into Views, particularly if that allowed
harnessing the DBMS to do some of the statistical analysis behind your
back...
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