Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'oct': 0.02; 'python.': 0.04; 'context': 0.04; 'postgresql': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'python': 0.08; 'executed': 0.09; 'i.e.,': 0.09; 'suggestions,': 0.09; '25,': 0.12; 'am,': 0.12; 'stored': 0.13; '"client': 0.16; '4:59': 0.16; 'alain': 0.16; 'db)': 0.16; 'function?': 0.16; 'java.': 0.16; 'oracle.': 0.16; 'postgresql)': 0.16; 'sense:': 0.16; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'meant': 0.17; '>>>': 0.18; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.20; "doesn't": 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'tue,': 0.23; 'pm,': 0.24; 'besides': 0.24; 'libraries': 0.24; 'code': 0.25; 'writes:': 0.25; 'code,': 0.28; 'martin': 0.28; 'url:mailman': 0.28; 'module.': 0.29; 'oracle': 0.29; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.30; 'thanks': 0.30; 'shows': 0.32; "can't": 0.33; 'there': 0.33; 'url:listinfo': 0.33; "i've": 0.34; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.34; 'subject:/': 0.34; 'replacement': 0.34; 'speaking': 0.35; '(for': 0.35; 'url:python': 0.36; 'page': 0.37; 'url:org': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'client': 0.39; 'else': 0.39; 'received:cz': 0.63; 'procedures': 0.64; 'taylor': 0.67; 'hmm...': 0.84; 'subject:SQL': 0.84 X-Spam-Score: -100.406 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-100.406 tagged_above=-255 required=5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=0.608, CRM114_HAM_00=, RATWARE_GECKO_BUILD=1.426, SMTPAUTH_SHDOMAIN=-100] Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:37:24 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFydGluIEtvbW/FiA==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0a2) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/8.0a2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alec Taylor Subject: Re: Python as a replacement to PL/SQL References: <87bot6sb2j.fsf@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 42 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1319474262 news.xs4all.nl 6890 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:36498 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:14927 PostgreSQL supports PL/SQL, PL/TCL, PL/Python, PL/Perl and I've also seen PL/Java add on module. Martin On 10/24/2011 4:59 PM, Alec Taylor wrote: > Hmm... > > What else is there besides PL/Python (for any DB) in the context of > writing stored procedures in function? > > Thanks for all suggestions, > > Alec Taylor > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Alain Ketterlin > wrote: >> Alec Taylor writes: >> >>> Is there a set of libraries for python which can be used as a complete >>> replacement to PL/SQL? >> >> This doesn't make much sense: PL/SQL lets you write server-side code, >> i.e., executed by the DBMS. Oracle can't execute python code directly, >> so python can only be used on the client side (I meant "client of the >> DBMS"), i.e., not to write stored procedures. There is no "complete >> replacement" of PL/SQL besides Java. >> >> This page shows you how to _call_ PL/SQL procedures from a python script: >> >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/dsl/python-091105.html >> >>> (I am speaking from the context of Oracle DB, PL/Python only works >>> with PostgreSQL) >> >> PL/Python is a different beast, it lets you write stored functions in >> python. There is no such thing, afaik, with Oracle. >> >> -- Alain. >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >>