On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Timothy Madden <terminato...@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 ? > > 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. Not using > string-literal syntax, difficult as that is already, would probably > represent about 1% of the work needed to implement what the spec > suggests. > I would like to put to good use the statements and expression that do match (SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/ ...), and the very function declaration syntax is getting in the way, making even those matches now useless ... Thank you, Timothy Madden
