Re: Packages, inner subprograms, and parameterizable anonymous blocks for PL/pgSQL

On 12/16/21 12:36, Bryn Llewellyn wrote:
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>> /adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
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>> Not following. To be exposed they have to exist and that is not the 
>> case in the community Postgres. The relevant question would seem to 
>> be, how do I get these features built?
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>>> /Bryn continued:/
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>>> * Full disclosure: I was the product manager for PL/SQL, working at 

> 
> Oops. I did a typo. I’d meant to write “I’d be very interested in 
> *reading* any ordinary prose…”

That I figured out:)

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> I can’t parse your “To be exposed they have to exist and that is not the 
> case…” Do you mean that the rumor that I heard is wrong and that nobody 
> has said to the Postgres community that they’ve embarked on, or at least 
> are interested in, implementing what I’m asking about?

Not that I know of.  What was being danced around is that Oracle 
compatibility is a key feature of EDB's business model:

https://www.enterprisedb.com/products/edb-postgres-advanced-server-secure-ha-oracle-compatible

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> I had assumed that the answer to “How do I get these features built?” 
> was “Write a C implementation and submit it for consideration”. But I 
> can’t do that. The obvious Google searches like “Submit enhancement 
> request for PostgreSQL” turn up only informal emails to lists like this. 
> Is there a better answer?
> 
Not really, though if you want to bring this up --hackers is the best list.


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Adrian Klaver
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