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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Justin!

On Nov 07, Justin Swanhart wrote:
> We discussed it here and it seemed vary popular.  WL-820.

I know, right?

A cool and useful feature, I'd say. I cannot understand why it's
constantly being pushed down for the last 10 years.

I still hope we get it someday.

> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi, Federico!
> >
> > On Nov 07, Federico Razzoli wrote:
> > > Some good points from Bill Karwin:
> > > https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-reasons-not-to-use-or-
> > not-use-stored-procedures/answer/Bill-Karwin
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > These are valid points, and some of them are related.
> > For example, "does not have a rich library of functions or standard
> > procedures" that follows from "does not support packages".
> > Which might be fixed in https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-10591
> >
> > External languages for stored procedures - that's a very cool feature,
> > and patches exist for many years. But, apparently, it's more cool than
> > practically useful? There were almost no requests for it, not when I was
> > in MySQL, not in MariaDB. And, frankly, I do not know why, this looks
> > insanely useful to me.

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
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