On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 13:06 -0700, James William Pye wrote: > On Jan 13, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > My argument would be now, what is the benefit of the James Pye version > > over our version. James can you illustrate succinctly why we should be > > supporting a new version? > > > Doing so, succinctly, is unfortunately difficult. > It is primarily a matter of comparing features, AFAICT. And, furthermore, > some features may not be useful to some users. > > It exposes additional functionality that should *not* be incrementally > developed in plpython as it would break applications. This was the point of > trying to move forward with it for Python 3. > > Function Modules: > - Does away with the need for GD/SD (more natural Python environment). > - Allows tracebacks (tracebacks are useful, right?) to implemented easily. > - Does *not* expose a bastardized variant of the language by pretending that > "modules/script files" can return and yield. > - Helps to promote the Python tenet of being explicit. > > Native Typing: > - Provides PG type introspection not available in any other PL, AFAIK. > - Improves efficiency in some cases (conversion must be _explicitly_ called > for) > - MD Array support. > - Composites are a sequence and a mapping. > > Other features: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/WIP:plpython3 > > > Aside from function modules and native typing, many of plpython3's features > could be implemented incrementally. However, I had a chance to sprint and > they are available now in a new implementation. I did so, rather than > improving plpython, because I believe that native typing and function modules > are very useful. > > I'm not sure this fulfills your request, but, hopefully, it's a start.
It does actually. Now, hackers... as a Python guy I can say these things are truly useful, to a Python programmer trying to use Python as a procedural language with PostgreSQL. What do we think? Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
