Re: PHP as PL

Rod Kreisler wrote:
> At 01:15 PM 4/6/2003 -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> >Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > Rod Kreisler wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know of an individual/group/whatever working on a project to
> > > > allow PHP to be used as a PL for Postgres?
> > >
> > > No, never heard of one, but I think MySQL may have one.
> >
> >What? I heard their plan was to use perl for user defined functions a
> >while back. At that time of course without server side data access
> >inside the same transaction, but things might have changed.
> >
> >Anyhow, I think PHP as a procedural language inside PostgreSQL would
> >make a lot of sense. It seems natural to use the same programming
> >language when trying to split up the business logic between the middle
> >tear layer (Apache/PHP) and the database.
> >
> >
> >Jan
>
> When the first Zend Engine was released, Zeev (or Andi) mentioned that they
> were is discussion with MySQL AB to have PHP as a PL for MySQL.  Since
> then, not a word.  MySQL only mentions that they plan to have PL support in
> v5 but no mention of what language that will use....

Yes, that is what I remember.

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