Re: [HACKERS] Moving to PostGres

2002-10-07 Thread Neil Conway
"Benjamin Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. What is the postgresql equiv to Stored procedures and can they be written > in another langauage such s JAVA? PostgreSQL supports user-defined functions; in 7.3 (currently in beta) they can return sets of tuples. You can define functions in Jav

Re: [HACKERS] Moving to PostGres

2002-10-07 Thread
In article , Benjamin Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am looking at moving our company away from MS SQL. Here's a good place to start: http://techdocs.postgresql.org/redir.php?link=/techdocs/sqlserver2pgsql.php -- http://www.spinics.net/linux/ -

[HACKERS] Moving to PostGres

2002-10-07 Thread Benjamin Stewart
Hello, I am looking at moving our company away from MS SQL. Have been looking at DB2 and it looks to have some good features. Now wondering if POSTGRESQL could be a viable alternative. I have a few questions though; 1. What is the postgresql equiv to Stored procedures and can they be written in an