Re: 8.2 features status

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 07:45:56AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >* Several varieties of replication, which I believe we as a project
> > will eventually endorse and ship
>
> This one will cause confusion regardless of how much advocacy,
> documentation and will power we put into it.

It will, but I think we'll eventually have to get there if for no
other reason than that every other DBMS on earth would have it.

> >* On-the-fly in-line calls out to PL/your_choice without needing to
> >issue DDL
>
> You mean something like: EXEC plperl(print $foo)?

Something like this:

SELECT a, b, c
FROM (
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
LANGUAGE plperl
$$...$$
) AS (a int, b point, c text)
JOIN ...

Anyhow, the idea is to be able to call PL functionality in-line
without having to create a function in advance.

Cheers,
D
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