On 8/1/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when "Carlo Stonebanks" <cstonebanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am interested in finding out a "non-religious" answer to which > procedural language has the richest and most robust implementation > for Postgres. C is at the bottom of my list because of how much > damage runaway code can cause. I also would like a solution which is > platorm-independent; we develop on Windows but may deploy on Linux.
- Doing funky string munging using the SQL functions available in pl/pgsql is likely to be painful; - Doing a lot of DB manipulation in pl/Perl or pl/Tcl or such requires having an extra level of function manipulations that won't be as natural as straight pl/pgsql.
Another important distinguishing characteristic is whether it supports set returning functions. I think only plpgsql does right now.
