X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E44D9DC84A for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:38:52 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92731-01 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:38:55 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mail.logix-tt.com (serval.logix-tt.com [213.239.221.42]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395E69DC82D for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:38:48 -0400 (AST) Received: from kingfisher.intern.logix-tt.com (Md470.m.pppool.de [89.49.212.112]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.logix-tt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6756524400F; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:38:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kingfisher.intern.logix-tt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB78181C209F; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:38:55 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43E2278E.7060108@logix-tt.com> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:38:54 +0100 From: Markus Schaber Organization: Logical Tracking and Tracing International AG, Switzerland User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Achilleus Mantzios Cc: Daniel Caune , Owen Jacobson , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Does PostgreSQL support job? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.126 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.126] X-Spam-Score: 0.126 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200602/25 X-Sequence-Number: 24035 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 -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org