The major disadvantage is that the development environment and tools for in-database languages aren't nearly as rich as your typical standalone environment, which makes programming a pain in the ass for many types of codes. I might have missed something in the intervening years, but I
Although the gap still exists within the environment itself, one significant advantage with PostgreSQL is you can use a more native (to the programmer anyway) language to generate your logic.
With PostgreSQL alone you can use plPerl, plPython and plPHP. The language itself hasn't change in it's implementation of the pL. You just
have to remember to make all ' a '' :) (at least for the most part).
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
don't think anyone has really bridged that gap. The database guys generally don't like running application code in their database, mostly because it creates new failure modes and problems that they have to manage. For example, at least in older versions of Oracle, if you accidentally programmed an infinite loop or some other busy non-functioning state, it took the DBA to kill it. In the course of application development, this could happen many, many times as code was being debugged, much to the annoyance of the DBAs.
That said, I don't see any obvious reason why it couldn't be done well with a moderate amount of effort.
j. andrew rogers
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