On 09/01/2014 09:06 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 09/01/2014 08:09 PM, Neil Tiffin wrote:
The docs also tell you how to avoid having to do this, using dollar quoting.
That should be enough alone to suggest postgreSQL start working on a modern, in
core, fast, fully supported language. Of course PL/pgSQL works, but so did
one-line 5k perl programs that nobody likes today. Everything can be done in
assembler, but no one suggests that today. Today, it is all about programmer
productivity. PL/pgSQL has a lot of unnecessary stuff that sucks the life out
of programmer productivity. And this should be very much a concern of the
professionals that support PostgreSQL
For example:
DECLARE
declarations
BEGIN
statements
END
This looks a lot like COBOL or Pascal, and today is mostly unnecessary.
It looks like Ada, and that's not an accident. (Nor is it a bad thing.)
First of all it is
[DECLARE
declarations]
BEGIN
statements
END;
Second "statements" includes the whole definition above as a "statement"
and controls identifier visibility and such compatible to PL/SQL.
You want to lose that? Not such a great idea, IMHO.
Jan
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