Neil Conway wrote: > But I agree that we need considerably more discussion before > committing the patch. I'm personally not sold on the need for > modifications to the SQL grammar, for example, as opposed to just > using a set of SQL-callable functions and some new system catalogs.
In particular, I would think that unless one is affiliated with The New COBOL World Order, one would *prefer* a set of functions over new SQL statements. And using functions to manage extensions seems to be the established way in Oracle land, if that matters at all. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
