Re: "stored procedures"

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
>> wouldn't it be better if the current crop of language handlers
>> could run procedures without major changes?  C functions with SPI?
>> However it's internally implemented, the more userland mindspace
>> recovered for use of writing procedures the better off we are.
> +1

I'd like a pony, too.  Let's be perfectly clear about this: there is no
part of plpgsql that can run outside a transaction today, and probably
no part of the other PLs either, and changing that "without major
changes" is wishful thinking of the first order.
        regards, tom lane