From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: skip weekends
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:37:27 -0700
Message-ID: <web-1552113@davinci.ethosmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D12C2C0.2040904@oasis.net.au>
Rudi,
> Nice reply Josh.
> I wouldn't call your solution 'ugly' at all.
Actually I posed te question, and Joe Conway offered the solution.
I'll be testing and reporting back.
> It's an excellent example of a real world need for Postgresql
> functions.
> I've also been looking at other functions at
> http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres/cookbook/.
> I noticed your name amongst the author's -- nice one -- keep up the
> good work.
Yes. Sadly, Roberto seems to have lost interest in PostgreSQL, so the
cookbook is frozen. <frown> For example, There's a couple of bugs in
name_alike I'd like to fix, but I can't correct them and Roberto
doesn't answer his e-mail. Anybody wanna take over the Cookbook?
> My only problem is trying to decide on whether to use PL/pgSQL or
> PLPerl.
Use them both. PL/Perl is better at text parsing, loops and arrays.
PL/pgSQL is faster for data operations. Use the best tool for the
job!
One thing I'd love to see is a generic address tokenizer, so that I can
write an "address_alike" function. My Perl isn't up to it.
Heck, a generic string tokenizer would be even more useful. Can a
PL/Perl function return an array?
-Josh
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