Re: PL/PySQL?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Carlos Villela" <carlos(at)valenti(dot)com(dot)br>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, python-list(at)egroups(dot)com
Subject: Re: PL/PySQL?
Date: 2001-01-26 04:21:05
Message-ID: 28572.980482865@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Carlos Villela" <carlos(at)valenti(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> I've been taking a look in the Feature Lists / TODO Files of PostgreSQL 7.1,
> and thought "hey, why is there PL/pgSQL, Perl and TCL interpreters available
> for PostgreSQL and no Python one? That'd be a great thing for, ie, Zope!"

Go for it ;-). IIRC, someone else has been making noises about such a
thing, but no submission has showed up. Check the PG mail list archives,
join forces, produce something ...

> Any thougts? What would it take to do it? Just some PgSQL Language API
> hacking and glueing with Python's C API?

The pltcl and plperl sources should give some hints --- note that
plperl is actually a hacked-up descendant of pltcl.

regards, tom lane

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