A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Jonah H. Harris") wrote: > I don't recommend discussion for this in this thread, but it could > also tie in with the packages support we've discussed and (although > some may argue this), compiling the PL to bytecode and using that.
This makes me think of the old jwz quote... "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems." -- Jamie Zawinski, on comp.lang.emacs There are essentially four choices: 1. Embed a JVM in PostgreSQL, and use that; the fact that there are already multiple "pljava" implementations suggests that it may be difficult to pick a strategy... 2. Embed some clone of CLR in PostgreSQL, let's say, MONO. I don't think there's a suitable BSDL'ed option... 3. Embed Parrot (the Perl/Python thing) in PostgreSQL. (Not that Parrot can be considered "done".) 4. Make up a PostgreSQL-specific bytecode interpreter. I'm quite sure that this leads to adding to the problems... -- wm(X,Y):-write(X),write('@'),write(Y). wm('cbbrowne','gmail.com'). http://linuxdatabases.info/info/nonrdbms.html Love the scientific sampling language, when any sample that is selected from Usenet readers and additionally self-selected is about as representative as a wombat is of European wildlife. -- Madeleine Page ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])