Re: Truncate if exists

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> To be perfectly frank, I think that's exactly where we ought to be
> going.  Oracle and Microsoft both did it, so why are we convinced it's
> a bad idea?  One of the huge problems with PL/pgsql is that every SQL
> expression in there has to be passed to the executor separately, which
> is painfully slow.

I'm a bit lost. I would think pl/pgsql is precisely the same as
Oracle's pl/sql and MS's T-SQL. I see the complaint you have as a
purely implementation detail. I don't think pl/pgsql is the best
implemented part of Postgres but I don't see how integrating it into
the core is going to automatically make it all wonderful either.

Fwiw my experience has consistently been that life got better whenever
I moved anything I had implemented as PL/SQL or PL/pgsql into client
code in Perl or Python.


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greg