Re: [HACKERS] PL/Lang (was: Priorities for 6.6)

At 13:34 9/06/99 +0400, you wrote:
>
>IMHO, It's bad practice to embed Perl, C++ and so on into postgres.
>because it slow down postgres, increase memory requirement 
>and amount of leaks and errors. 

You can't possibly mean to say Perl is a slow, leaky memory hog! ;-} 

Do I detect a conspiracy here? (Oleg?)

>Postgres should use it's own language like plpgsql, and
>it's better to point your mind to improve and speed up it.
>
>For example:
> Add pre-compilation and syntax check while create function
> executed

At least a syntax check...


> Add some string and regex manipulation functions.
> Add exception handling.
>

These all sound like a good idea. 

Jan: If I volunteer to attempt any of these, can you provide advice?


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