| From: | Nicolay A Vasiliev <nvasiliev(at)whiteriversoft(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PL language selection |
| Date: | 2005-11-10 11:55:01 |
| Message-ID: | dkvcem$e27$1@sea.gmane.org |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-general |
Richard Huxton wrote:
> Nicolay A Vasiliev wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am going to be inspired into PostgreSQL community. So I need your
>> advices, buddies.
>
>
> Crikey! I must be more persuasive than I thought :-)
Wow :)
>
>> There are a number of different PL-languages. How do you select these
>> languages? I think PL/SQL is more fast or am I wrong?
>
>
> Hmm - it varies. You are guaranteed to always have plpgsql available
> wherever PG is installed. It's not very good at dynamic stuff
What do you mean?
> - with Perl/TCL etc you can write one trigger function and have it adapt itself
> to different tables quite easily.
Perl is our working horse :), so this sounds good.
>
> The others have their strengths and weaknesses depending on the language
> itself. If you're prepared to compile from source there is a pl-php
> which might interest you.
>
> It's from the nice people at Command Prompt:
> http://www.commandprompt.com/community/plphp/
I've heard about this, but Perl and Python are more preferred for us.
Regards,
Nicolay
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Damjan Pipan | 2005-11-10 12:03:15 | plpgsql using EXECUTE function |
| Previous Message | Nicolay A Vasiliev | 2005-11-10 11:51:47 | Re: PL language selection |