Re: plpython3

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Nathan Boley <npboley@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, James William Pye <lists@jwp.name>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-01T21:39:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 16:31 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>  
> > > I would love to know why PL/Python can't be incrementally improved like
> > > the rest of our code.
> > 
> > It has been. That is exactly what PeterE has been doing.
> > 
> > However, if you look at this whole thread, you will see the James has a
> > very different view of the implementation. One that at least appears to
> > be more advanced and "pythonic" than our version.
> 
> More "pythonic" in its internal processing or in its user interface?

User interface and also internal processing (see the types discussion).

Joshua D. Drake




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