Re: pl/pgsql outside the DB, (i.e. on the terminal) possible ?

Στις 7/3/24 18:25, ο/η Pavel Stehule έγραψε:
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> čt 7. 3. 2024 v 16:59 odesílatel Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
> napsal:
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> > On Mar 7, 2024, at 06:56, Achilleas Mantzios - cloud
> <a(dot)mantzios(at)cloud(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> wrote:
> > So, I ask, have there been any efforts to bring PL/PGSQL to the
> terminal?
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> Strictly speaking, of course, you can use PL/pgSQL from the
> terminal already: just use psql, connect to the database, and
> create and run functions and procedures as much as you like.
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> If the question is, "Have there been any efforts to implement a
> PL/pgSQL interpreter without PostgreSQL?", that's a different and
> much more complex problem.  PL/pgSQL uses the PostgreSQL query
> execution machinery to run pretty much anything that is not a
> control structure, and the language is very focused on interacting
> with the database. I doubt it would be worth anyone's time to try
> to build some kind of minimal framework that implements the SPI to
> allow PL/pgSQL to operate without PostgreSQL.
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> yes
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> plpgsql cannot exist without Postgres. PL/pgSQL is strongly reduced
> interpreted Ada language. The gcc compiler supports Ada language.
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> I found https://bush.sourceforge.net/bushref.html - it is interpret
> with Ada syntax, but it is better to learn Python - it is easy - with
> a pretty big library.
Cool, thank you.
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> free pascal https://www.freepascal.org/ is good compiler and you can
> write terminal applications too - with Turbo Vision
Too bad, PASCAL is now neglected by most UNIs :(
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> Regards
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> Pavel

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