Re: CREATE LANGUAGE

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Is there a reason why it's CREATE LANGUAGE 'string' and not CREATE
> LANGUAGE "ident"?  I'd like to allow both to make it consistent with the
> other create commands.  SQL also uses identifier syntax for language
> names.

Seems reasonable to me.  Don't overlook the CREATE FUNCTION ... LANGUAGE
clause, too.

> Also, what is LANCOMPILER for?  If it's just a comment we ought to use
> pg_description.

I think the original idea might have been to someday support
auto-building of compiled functions.  (Though a setup allowing one to
invoke make with suitable arguments would probably be far more useful
than a bare compiler name.)  I'm not in a hurry to rip it out until we
have designed such a facility, anyway.  There are a lot of vestigial
features in Postgres that we might someday resurrect/implement.  I tend
to view those things as TODO markers, not stuff to rip out to save a
byte or two.
        regards, tom lane