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

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:31:27PM -0400, pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > 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.
I would still argue that if any language should be installed by default
it should be plpgsql and not java. As I mentioned, everyone using a
database already knows SQL; not nearly as many know java.
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