Re: [GENERAL] Stored Procs Vs User Defined Functions vis-a-vis UDF's in Postgresql

2007-10-29 Thread Albe Laurenz
Harpreet Dhaliwal wrote: > lately I have been looking at difference between a Stored > Proc and User Defined Functions in other RDBMS like Sql > Server / Oracle. Nomenclature varies wildly between different Database Management Systems. Be careful. The SQL standard (2005) speaks of "SQL-invoked

[GENERAL] Stored Procs Vs User Defined Functions vis-a-vis UDF's in Postgresql

2007-10-27 Thread Harpreet Dhaliwal
Hi, lately I have been looking at difference between a Stored Proc and User Defined Functions in other RDBMS like Sql Server / Oracle. However, in postgresql, I think Stored Procs are wrapped around in User Defined functions, if I am not wrong. The following is the list of main differences b/w a St