<my thoughts> I would assume a plpgsql solution wouldn't be a bad one, All you would really need is IF ELSEIF ELSE and FOR/WHILE, a way for procedures, triggers, views, etc. to be able to access each other with in the syntax of the language (providing routine/function support) along side the ability to access existing functions defined by the db; You may even want to think about providing a very simple push <-> pull system to allow forks out to external applications (not ideal in most cases but could be very useful in some). </my thoughts>
Russell E Glaue wrote: > > Actually, I like this proposal of being able to plug in any language into > MySQL. I also want to make a note that Greg Cope has a very good point. > I believe it to be good to be able to plug in any language, but the mySQL > community may want to make a standard recomendation of a certain language. > And going from what Greg mentioned in an earlier e-mail in this thread, > the embedded language of choice really needs to be a small and compact > language. Perhaps it is feature rich, but still small. > A big language like java or perl will most likely slow down the database. > > What language could MySQL try to standardize on that would not cause the > server to slow down or become bulky in memory? I don't know if Python or > PHP are necessarilly better choices than PERL or Java under these > considerations. I cringe at offering up TCL as an option (don't hit me!). > I might go along with using LISP. > > Does anyone on this list have a suggestion as what might be the best > language to embed into MySQL? Be sure to consider memory efficiency, > threadding, speed of the language, and compactness (compared to code and > library bulkiness). I'd like to hear what other people think? > > As far as creating a language just to embed in MySQL... this may be > tempting, but I think it to be far better to not do this. The problems > with inventing a language just for MySQL is stalness of advancing the > language, and also innovation and optimization. There are already lots of > people in existing communities to improve current program languages. > > -RG > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:20:41PM -0600, Russell E Glaue wrote: > > > > > > On the mysql-internals mail list we had a thread going about this. I > > > was suggesting something like embedding PERL into MySQL to produce > > > something like PERL/SQL (similar to PL/SQL in oracle). > > > Unfortunately, although promising and liked among people of the > > > list, there are no plan right now to develop anything like > > > this. Atleast no one has taken the initiative to look into this. > > > > Actually, there are plans. I've been in at least 2 discussions (1 was > > in person) about just how it will be done. > > > > The plan, last I heard, is to provide a general API for plugging in a > > language on the back-end. So if you to use Python, you can. If you > > want to use PHP, you can. Java? Probably. And so on. > > > > The only problematic languages are those with threading problems--like > > Perl. > > > > Jeremy > > -- > > Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance > > Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 > > > > MySQL 3.23.47-max: up 54 days, processed 1,508,672,191 queries (319/sec. avg) > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php -- Colin Faber (303) 859-1491 fpsn.net, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
