Wietse Venema: > Joel Linn: > > Why is it chosen to "not support stored procedures" instead of adding two > > lines of code? > > The original mysql client may well have been written at a time that > stored procedures did not exist, or no API documentation existed > for how to do this correctly. > > If you feel strongly about stored procedures, then you are welcome > to contribute code. If you can demonstrate that the code uses the > MySQL API correctly (instead of "there are no error messages") then > that would help getting the code accepted.
This is a pointer to MySQL documentation for multi-statement support, which seems to be needed to implement stored-procedure support in the Postfix MySQL client. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/c-api-multiple-queries.html Wietse
