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[Justin Swanhart <greenlion@xxxxxxxxx>]

I forgot about 'async'.  It is a multi-threaded asynchronous (and client
agnostic) SQL queue built entirely from MySQL primitives with no external
dependencies.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Justin Swanhart <greenlion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are a great many uses for stored procedures.  They can eliminate
> round trips, and they can encapsulate logic in the database.  It is a pity
> that MySQL stored procedures are so limited that hey do not even
> encapsulate the full standard, and require difficult constructs by not
> implementing "for" loops, and other language conveniences.  But they are
> very powerful. I am probably the only person outside of Oracle to publish
> open source tools that rely on them heavily, because the logic they employ
> belongs in the database (Flexviews and PS_history being the primary two).
> As an example from Oracle, the sys schema uses stored functions to great
> effect.
>
> Just because something is clunky, it does not make it worthless, it simply
> means that more effort has to be put in to get the desired result, but the
> effort can very well be worth it.
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Игорь Пашев <pashev.igor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 2016-11-07 18:43 GMT+03:00 Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I value stored procedures only for maintenance tasks and only in the
>> `mysql` DB.
>> Anything else is PITA :)
>>
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