X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB7ED1C9FC for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:03:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [64.117.224.130]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72598-01 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:02:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (209-128-84-228.bayarea.net [209.128.84.228]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40495D1C9ED for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:03:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [66.219.92.2] (HELO temoku) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.2) with ESMTP id 3368826; Fri, 01 Aug 2003 14:04:03 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Berkus Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: Richard Poole , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: TODO item for plpgsql Was Re: obtuse plpgsql function needs Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 14:02:39 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200307310412.h6V4CNt25172@candle.pha.pa.us> <200308011306.18747.josh@agliodbs.com> <20030801202616.GA17793@guests.deus.net> In-Reply-To: <20030801202616.GA17793@guests.deus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200308011402.39594.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200308/16 X-Sequence-Number: 14632 Guys, > I'm not an Oracle bunny but they seem to have something vaguely similar > to what we do; they call it "EXECUTE IMMEDIATE" and the concept is > described as "Dynamic SQL". Aha. I see it now; a pretty awful OO-package-style format. I don't think= we=20 want to imitate this. --=20 -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco