On 15-Aug-05, at 1:30 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Hello,
I have negotiated with the author of pl/Ruby to release plRuby
under the PostgreSQL license. The reason I did this is the following:
1. I felt we needed a truly OO language in core.
Why ? Are you truly going to write huge OO functions inside the db ?
If not why do you need OO ?
This looks to me to be just another syntax, what can you do in plruby
that you can't do in plpgsql, or plsh, or pltcl, or pl<name> ?
2. plPython isn't really moving forward and has the whole trusted/
untrusted issue.
Now anyone who knows me, knows that I love Python which means this
is not a language argument as much as a functionality argument.
Ruby for good or bad is gaining a large following and has become a
very active language in a short period of time. It can also be
trusted and untrusted.
I believe that unless plPython can either be fixed or is going to
continue to move forward as a pl language that we should consider
deprecating it and even removing it in 8.2 or 8.3.
As far as a PL language plruby seems to have some really good
stuff. Here is the docs:
http://moulon.inra.fr/ruby/plruby.html
What does everybody think?
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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