On 2/25/17 1:27 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Something that has been bothering me in PL/Python for a long time is the
> non-object-oriented way in which plans are prepared and executed:
> 
>     plan = plpy.prepare(...)
>     res = plpy.execute(plan, ...)
> 
> where plpy.execute() takes either a plan or a query string.
> 
> I think a better style would be
> 
>     plan = plpy.prepare(...)
>     res = plan.execute(...)
> 
> so that the "plan" is more like a statement handle that one finds in
> other APIs.
> 
> This ended up being very easy to implement, so I'm proposing to allow
> this new syntax as an alternative.
> 
> I came across this again as I was developing the background sessions API
> for PL/Python.  So I'm also wondering here which style people prefer so
> I can implement it there.

This patch applies cleanly at cccbdde.

Any Python folks out there who would like to take a crack at reviewing this?

-- 
-David
da...@pgmasters.net


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