From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Fernando Ike <fike(at)midstorm(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: psql: Add \dL to show languages |
Date: | 2011-01-17 14:37:42 |
Message-ID: | 20110117143742.GB19146@fetter.org |
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:48:43PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On mån, 2011-01-17 at 07:37 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > >> which, as Magnus points out, includes non-procedural languages
> > >> (SQL).
> > >>
> > >> I think that "list languages" could be confusing to newcomers
> > >> -- the very people who might be reading through the help output
> > >> of psql for the first time -- who might suppose that
> > >> "languages" has something to do with the character sets
> > >> supported by PostgreSQL, and might not even be aware that a
> > >> variety of procedural languages can be used inside the
> > >> database.
> > >
> > > Fair point.
> >
> > Yeah. Procedural langauges may strictly be wrong, but people
> > aren't likely to misunderstand it.
>
> The term "procedural" in this context originated with Oracle's
> PL/SQL, which is a procedural language extension to the
> non-procedural SQL language.
We can repurpose 'P' to mean, Programming or PostgreSQL, and have done :)
Cheers,
David.
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