| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>, Grant Finnemore <grantf(at)guruhut(dot)co(dot)za>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: SQL-Invoked Procedures for 8.1 |
| Date: | 2004-09-24 15:08:15 |
| Message-ID: | 4154385F.4090109@joeconway.com |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 01:56, Joe Conway wrote:
>
>>As other's have pointed out, this is very common in the MS SQL Server
>>world (and I believe Sysbase also supports it).
>
>>From looking at the docs, it appears this isn't supported by Oracle or
> DB2 (correct me if I'm wrong). I can see how it would be useful, but I
> don't think it needs to be part of the first shot at doing stored
> procedures.
I believe you are correct for Oracle at least.
But for people porting over from MSSQL it is a *huge* deal, and given
the native windows port of Postgres with 8.0.0, I predict *many*
requests for this in upcoming months.
Joe
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