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PL/pgSQL
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| Designed by | Jan Wieck |
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| Developer | PostgreSQL Global Development Group |
| First appeared | October 30, 1998 |
| Website | www |
| Influenced by | |
| PL/SQL, Ada | |
PL/pgSQL (Procedural Language/PostgreSQL) is a procedural programming language supported by the PostgreSQL ORDBMS. It closely resembles Oracle's PL/SQL language. Implemented by Jan Wieck, PL/pgSQL first appeared with PostgreSQL 6.4, released on October 30, 1998.[1] Version 9 also implements some ISO SQL/PSM features, like overloading of SQL-invoked functions and procedures.[2]
PL/pgSQL, as a fully featured programming language, allows much more procedural control than SQL, including the ability to use loops and other control structures. SQL statements and triggers can call functions created in the PL/pgSQL language.
The design of PL/pgSQL aimed to allow PostgreSQL users to perform more complex operations and computations than SQL, while providing ease of use. The language is able to be defined as trusted by the server.[3]
PL/pgSQL is one of the programming languages included in the standard PostgreSQL distribution,[4] the others being PL/Tcl, PL/Perl[5] and PL/Python.[6] In addition, many others are available from third parties, including PL/Java,[7] PL/pgPSM,[8] PL/php,[9] PL/R,[10] PL/Ruby,[11] PL/sh, PL/Lua, Postmodern[12] (based on Common Lisp) and PL/v8. PostgreSQL uses Bison as its parser,[13] making it easy to port many open-source languages, as well as to reuse code.
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- ^ "feature T322", SQL standard features (9 ed.), PostgreSQL.
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- ^ "Procedural Languages". 9 May 2024.
- ^ "PL/Perl", Docs (current ed.), PostgreSQL.
- ^ "PL/Python", Docs (current ed.), PostgreSQL.
- ^ "PL/Java", Gborg (project), PostgreSQL.
- ^ SQL/PSM (manual), PostgreSQL, 20 May 2008.
- ^ "PL/PHP", Community, Command prompt.
- ^ Conway, Joe, PL/R, archived from the original on 2014-06-19, retrieved 2005-02-25.
- ^ PL/Ruby (project), Ruby lang, 2018-11-23.
- ^ Haverbeke, Marijn (2024-05-27), marijnh/Postmodern, retrieved 2024-06-01
- ^ "Parser stage", Docs (9 ed.), PostgreSQL
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