Re: PL/Java (was: stored procedures)

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Petre Scheie wrote:

> My DBA and I looked at the link on using SQL for stored procedures
> (thanks Neil!) and he raised a couple concerns:
>
> 1. In the example given, the query is directed at just one table; he
> says he needs to join multiple tables, and have it return a set.  Can PG
> do this?
>
> 2.  The docs say this ability to return a set is deprecated and may be
> removed in a future release.  Why is that?  Has this functionality been
> replaced by something else (better?)
>
> Sorry if these are really dumb questions. We're trying to use pg
> (instead of O or SS) but we're new to it.

Sure, that's no problem.  Has this guy read much of the docs yet?  it's a
worthy investment of time, and they're quite good:

Main 7.3 docs page:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=0&file=index.html

Here's some marketing bullet points from the programmer's guide in 7.3:

* User programmable and built-in functions
* User extensible types, as well as a rich variety of built-ins
* User definable operators
* User definable aggregates
* Rules
* Triggers
* Procedural Languages:
**  PL/pgSQL
**  PL/Tcl
**  PL/Perl
**  PL/Python
**  PL/R  (coming in 7.3)

It's the best database you've never heard of (before now).  :-)