Re: [HACKERS] Anonymous code blocks vs CREATE LANGUAGE

2009-09-22 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > Should we consider another generic options syntax, while we're on a > roll? In the long run, that's the best way to avoid having a zillion > keywords. If there were any near-term prospect of more options for languages, I might agree ... but there isn't, so I'm having a hard

Re: [HACKERS] Anonymous code blocks vs CREATE LANGUAGE

2009-09-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: I'm going through the anonymous-code-blocks patch now. There are some things missing, notably the ability to create a language with an anonymous-code-block handler. The only way you can do it is to have a pg_pltemplate entry, which is certainly not good enough for languages no

Re: [HACKERS] Anonymous code blocks vs CREATE LANGUAGE

2009-09-22 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:50:45PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > I'm going through the anonymous-code-blocks patch now.  There are > > some things missing, notably the ability to create a language with > > an anonymous-code-block handler.  The onl

Re: [HACKERS] Anonymous code blocks vs CREATE LANGUAGE

2009-09-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > I'm going through the anonymous-code-blocks patch now.  There are some > things missing, notably the ability to create a language with an > anonymous-code-block handler.  The only way you can do it is to have > a pg_pltemplate entry, which is cert

[HACKERS] Anonymous code blocks vs CREATE LANGUAGE

2009-09-22 Thread Tom Lane
I'm going through the anonymous-code-blocks patch now. There are some things missing, notably the ability to create a language with an anonymous-code-block handler. The only way you can do it is to have a pg_pltemplate entry, which is certainly not good enough for languages not distributed with t