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From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.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, 2 Feb 2006 18:49:06 +0200 (EET)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0602021848310.8152-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E2278E.7060108@logix-tt.com>

O Markus Schaber Ýãñáøå óôéò Feb 2, 2006 :

> 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. :-)

Well, if we add one stack to SQL it will kick some major PASCAL ass!

> 
> HTH,
> Markus
> 

-- 
-Achilleus




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