Re: plpython3

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Nathan Boley <npboley(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, James William Pye <lists(at)jwp(dot)name>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plpython3
Date: 2010-02-01 21:11:51
Message-ID: 20100201211149.GC7363@alvh.no-ip.org
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Peter Eisentraut escribió:
> On mån, 2010-02-01 at 12:01 -0800, Nathan Boley wrote:
> > I code nearly exclusively in python and C, but I have
> > often found pl/python to be very unwieldy. For this reason I often
> > use pl/perl or pl/pgsql for problems that, outside of postgres, I
> > would always use python.
>
> I find that curious, because much of the criticism about the current
> PL/Python can be traced back to the fact that the implementation used to
> be an exact copy of PL/Perl.

Perhaps the problem is that PL/Perl used to be unwieldy back when
PL/Python was created. PL/Perl has definitely seen a lot more activity.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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