On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com > wrote:
> Timothy Madden escribió: > > > Just like when I write C++ applications I use standards-conforming > > C++, when I write SQL applications I would like to use > > standard-conforming SQL. > > Sadly, we don't have standards-conformant SQL/PSM. Right now, we have a > lot of different languages for functions, none of them mandated by SQL, > and there is no reason to create a syntax exception for any of them. > > I am sure that when we get SQL/PSM support, the interest in getting > standards-conformant procedure creation statements is going to get a lot > higher. > > PL/pgSQL is not SQL/PSM. > > Anyway Posgres offers a CREATE FUNCTION statement that resembles or should resemble that in the standard, and that is what I am talking about. I just want the Postgres version of the statement to look more like the standard one. Would you detail the differences you talk about that you see here ? Thank you, Timothy Madden
