From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
To: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: Daniel Caune <daniel.caune@ubisoft.com>
Cc: Owen Jacobson <ojacobson@osl.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Does PostgreSQL support job?
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:38:54 +0100
Message-ID: <43E2278E.7060108@logix-tt.com> (raw)
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H, Achilleus,
Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
>>PLPGSQL is turing complete, plain SQL is not.
> Hmmmm is SQL equally powerful as a pushdown automaton then???
SQL is _not_ a programming language, it is a query language. It is not
meant to be turing complete.
Just as e. G. HTML, CSS or RFC2822 are structural or layout languages,
but not programming languages.
> Just kidding!
Now, you're kidding. :-)
HTH,
Markus
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