Re: patch: shared session variables

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> Pavel, you didn't say what you think about the WITH FUNCTION proposal?
>
> I don't like it - this proposal is too "lispish" - it is not SQL

We're not doing lambda here, only extending a facility that we rely on
today. The function would be named, for one. I don't know what you mean
by SQL being lispish here, and I can't imagine why it would be something
to avoid.

>> And you didn't say how do you want to turn a utility statement into
>> something that is able to return a result set.
>
> if we support "real" procedures ala sybase procedures (MySQL, MSSQL..)
> - then we can return result with same mechanism - there are no
> significant difference between DO and CALL statements - you don't know
> what will be result type before you call it.

Currently we don't have CALL, and we have DO which is not a query but a
utility statement. Are you proposing to implement CALL? What would be
the difference between making DO a query and having CALL?

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
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