| From: | Nicolay A Vasiliev <nvasiliev(at)whiteriversoft(dot)com> | 
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| 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 | 
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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
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