2009/10/25 Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com>:
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> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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>> Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Ok I get it. So Posgres also offers perl and python in addition to SQL.
>> > But at least for SQL, which is included and defined in the standard,
>> > could
>> > the syntax be made conforming ?
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>> I think you still haven't got the point: there is *no* function language
>> that we offer that exactly matches what the spec has got. =C2=A0Not using
>> string-literal syntax, difficult as that is already, would probably
>> represent about 1% of the work needed to implement what the spec
>> suggests.
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> I would like to put to good use the statements and expression that do mat=
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> (SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/ ...), and the very function declaration syntax is
> getting in the way, making even those matches now useless ...
???
Pavel
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> Thank you,
> Timothy Madden
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