Re: PL/pgSQL 2

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>
To: Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht(at)nosys(dot)es>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PL/pgSQL 2
Date: 2014-09-01 21:31:28
Message-ID: 5404E5B0.3080500@joh.to
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On 2014-09-01 11:11 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
> No, really: if there is a new version of a "language", which
> modifies the current syntax of plpgsql; if plpgsql is already very
> similar to PL/SQL: why not rather than coming up with a new syntax use
> an already existing one? One that many, many more users than plpgsql,
> already know?

The point isn't to create a new language just for the sake of creating a
new one. It's to fix the problems PL/PgSQL has. If we're just going to
trade the problems in PL/PgSQL with another set of problems implemented
by PL/SQL, we're just worse off in the end.

.marko

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