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MySQL Gets Perl Stored Procedures

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

ryarger writes "Woo Hoo! After a seeming eternity of wait, there is finally an implementation of stored procedures for MySQL. It uses Perl as the stored proc language, too!" Also note that this piece of work was done by OSDNs own Krow. Very cool work I must say.

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  1. Re:I would also like ... by Malcontent · · Score: 4, Informative

    " if they put hooks into a generic MySQL facility which allows *any* programming language to serve as a SP language in the server. Why can't I use Python?"

    Postgresql does this. You can use python, perl, TCL, and PL/PGSQL.

    They are debating loading up Java but there seems to be some resistance from the hackers.

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