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From: Brett W. McCoy <bmccoy@lan2wan.com>
To: Jeff MacDonald <jeff@hub.org>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Stored Procedures
> On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>
> > 1: does postgres support stored procedures
>
> Yes, quite extensively, and far beyond what SQL 7 offers. You may
want
> to take a look at the programmer's manual for the documentation.
I thought we had rather a long debate recently about whether and if
Postgres did/should support stored procedures, and the point was that
it doesn't at the moment?
PL/PgSQL functions are not at all the same thing, although they are
obviously very useful.
Yours,
Moray
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