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They're planning to add "server side scripting" in any language to replace stored procedures. It sounds quite cool.

http://krow.livejournal.com/638941.html

I have been writing extensions to Postgresql in C++ recently, and it's amazing what you can do if you have the full flexibility of loading a .so into the db process and doing whatever you want.

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I didn't mean to imply that it is no longer a useful or interesting piece of software; just that it is not a simple migration for some project that specifically use MySQL features.

I did the same thing in SQL Server, too, so it's not a new concept and the other RDBMs with that ability still have a use for traditional stored procs.

My experience with both stored procs and running actual programming languages on the database is that one does not replace the other; but I'll wait with an open mind to see.

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