Re: Best Procedural Language?

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: harding(dot)ian(at)gmail(dot)com, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best Procedural Language?
Date: 2006-08-02 04:05:25
Message-ID: 44D02485.5070105@joeconway.com
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>> - 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.

and so does PL/R
;-)

Joe

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