From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Martin Edlman <edlman@fortech.cz>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] pl/PgSQL, variable names in NEW
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:56:31 -0400
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:45:25 -0400
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>
>>> Question for plperl hackers: Should we remove the mention of
>>> DBD::PgSPI from the PL/Perl manual?
>>>
>> It seems like a reasonable suggestion to me, since perl database users
>> probably already know DBD and don't have to learn something new if
>> they go that way.
>>
>> Possibly the text should be reworded, with the mention of DBD::PgSPI
>> put somewhere else or stuck into a <note> or something.
>>
>
> From what I can see on CPAN (unless I am missing something) DBD::PgSPI
> hasn't been updated since 2004 and is at version 0.2.
>
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/
>
> I think it can safely be removed in entirety from our manuals.
>
>
>
+1. It's also GNU licensed, so we can't include it. A clean room BSD
licensed implementation would be a nice addition, but it really doesn't
buy you much in functionality that you don't already have.
cheers
andrew
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