Re: Best Procedural Language?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: harding(dot)ian(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best Procedural Language?
Date: 2006-08-02 04:01:55
Message-ID: 44D023B3.6050809@commandprompt.com
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>> - Doing a lot of DB manipulation in pl/Perl or pl/Tcl or such
>> requires having an extra level of function manipulations that
>> won't be as natural as straight pl/pgsql.
>
> Another important distinguishing characteristic is whether it supports
> set returning functions. I think only plpgsql does right now.

Actually no. Plperl, plphp, plruby and I believe even pl/Tcl support set
returning functions.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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