Re: [GENERAL] stored procedure revisited

amy cheng wrote:
>
> C is good, and in a sense, for OSS we should encourage more C "scripting"
> and "hacking" than script scripting. (perl and PL/pgSQL actually is "bad" in
> this sense). Because IF everybody use C, the use and development will
> inherently related and the dev. speed will
> accelate exponentially. However, C/C++ is difficult (I use
> both C and perl, so I know it). Also, as GOOD excuse, C/C++
> is not safe. So, we need PL SP.

Well, not everyone in this world can work in the C level (I certainly
included myself here), and talking about languages is getting awefully
close to advocacy :)  But just think this way though, if C is the route
to go, then why not assembly?  When you have an answer of why not, you
also have an answer for C as well :)  But OTOH, that's why C programmers
have nothing to fear about all the VB programmers out there...  Because
there are jobs only C is appropriate.  I am sure you all know this so
ignore my mumbling :)

>
> However, I would like to see data warehouse (or more moderately and
> accurately data mart) support also -- the point: the priority?
>

So, what is the priority?  I will argue that SP is a higher priority
than data warehousing.  The reason?  More people would benefit from SP
than from data warehousing.  Moreover, SP will also draw database
administrator's mind-share for PG.  Who's going to work with the
database?  Administrators & application developers, mostly.  And if
there are features which most administrators or developers would
consider lacking, it would be a reason for them to look elsewhere.
W/out them pitching for PG, would PG compete well against commercial
databases?  SPI is great and all, but there is a reason why a PL is also
developed.  Since the PL is here, then SP is the next logical step :)

Regards,

yin-so chen