[pyramation]

agree, this is exactly why the code was written. I had originally tried to use plv8 or others, but as my postgres experience matured and I built testing harnesses, I decided to throw away any non-standard code (plv8, etc).

I think often times folks who come to postgres often don't know PL/pgsql (as I also didn't) and prefer to user their language of choice. I truly think if our postgres dev environments were better, we'd find more people writing code this way, so I can empathize with why people would prefer python or JS in the db, but at this stage I can't get myself to use those extensions.

FWIW, at one point, AWS didn't support a lot of these (sometimes unsafe) language extensions. So going pure PL/pgsql was the only true path forward. I think now for AWS users, they do support plv8 now, but as you pointed out somewhere in this thread, they are much slower... also I remember plv8 specifically had memory leaks.