
Programmability
- stored procedures
- can call out to external routines (external stored procedures)
- internal programming language(s):
        - flow control and loops
        - user-defined (compound) structures
        - recursion 
        - exceptions
        - can return error messages to clients
        - object-oriented
- debugger supplied for stored procedure language(s)
- triggers
        - triggers can cascade (nested triggers)
        - multiple triggers per action per row
- standard database client APIs supported in addition to native API (e.g. ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, etc.)
- revision of ODBC driver supplied
- revision of JDBC driver supplied
- precompilers supplied for which languages:
- cursors can scroll backwards as well as forwards 
- message queuing services


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Mon, 31 Jan 2000 17:37:28 -0400 (AST)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
PCLabs Survey, Part V: Programmability
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:37:28PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> - precompilers supplied for which languages:

Are there more than C?

Michael

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Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:07:05 +0100
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org>
Re: [HACKERS] PCLabs Survey, Part V: Programmability