Re: Usability, MySQL, Postgresql.org, gborg, contrib,

> On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 05:15:19PM -0400, pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> (5) Programming languages. We need to make a programming language
>> standard
>> in PostgreSQL. plpgsql is good, but isn't someone working on a Java
>> language. That would be pretty slick.
>
> If there's going to be a single standard language, I strongly believe it
> should be plpgsql. Any other language means that you have to find
> something that someone else knows or is willing to learn, whereas anyone
> using a database already knows SQL. plpgsql is simply an extension of
> SQL, and is trivial for anyone who's worked with any other database
> procedural languages to pickup. Asking a DBA to learn java or perl or
> PHP is asking a lot.
>
> If anything I'd like to see more features brought into plpgsql, like
> packages (ala Oracle).

Sorry, by standard, I meant installed by default, not to the exclusion of
all else.