Re: actualized SQL/PSM patch

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: actualized SQL/PSM patch
Date: 2008-04-03 04:34:54
Message-ID: 47F45E6E.1050706@dunslane.net
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-patches

Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> The fundamental problem I've got with this patch is that it adds 400K
>> of new code (and that's just the code, not counting documentation or
>> regression tests) that we'll have to maintain, to obtain a feature that
>> so far as I've heard there is precisely zero demand for.
>>
>
> We have a customer that wants to use it as part of a MySQL-to-Postgres
> migration.
>
>

Using an implementation like this? I suspect anyone wanting to migrate
their existing SQL/PSM stuff to Postgres will be less than impressed by
our "function body as a string" mechanism.

cheers

andrew

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-patches by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2008-04-03 04:57:11 Re: actualized SQL/PSM patch
Previous Message Joshua D. Drake 2008-04-03 02:34:00 Re: actualized SQL/PSM patch