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SQL/PSM (SQL/Persistent Stored Modules) is an ISO standard mainly defining an extension of SQL with a procedural language for use in stored procedures. Initially published in 1996 as an extension of SQL-92 (ISO/IEC 9075-4:1996, a version sometimes called PSM-96 or even SQL-92/PSM[1]), SQL/PSM was later incorporated into the multi-part SQL:1999 standard, and has been part 4 of that standard since then, most recently in SQL:2011. The SQL:1999 part 4 covered less than the original PSM-96 because the SQL statements for defining, managing, and invoking routines were actually incorporated into part 2 SQL/Foundation, leaving only the procedural language itself as SQL/PSM.[2] The SQL/PSM facilities are still optional as far as the SQL standard is concerned; most of them are grouped in Features P001-P008.

SQL/PSM standardizes syntax and semantics for control flow, exception handling (called "condition handling" in SQL/PSM), local variables, assignment of expressions to variables and parameters, and (procedural) use of cursors. It also defines an information schema (metadata) for stored procedures. SQL/PSM is one language in which methods for the SQL:1999 structured types can be defined. The other is Java, via SQL/JRT.

In practice MySQL's procedural language and IBM's SQL PL (used in DB2) are closest to the SQL/PSM standard.[3]

SQL/PSM resembles and inspired by PL/SQL, as well as PL/pgSQL, so they are similar languages. With PostgreSQL v9 some SQL/PSM features, like overloading of SQL-invoked functions and procedures[4] are now supported. A PostgreSQL addon implements SQL/PSM[5][6][7][8] (alongside its own procedural language), although it is not part of the core product.[9]

See also

Open source similar languages:

Proprietary similar languages:

  • PL/SQL (Oracle proprietary language for stored procedures)
  • Transact-SQL (Microsoft and Sybase equivalent)

References

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  2. ^ Melton, Jim; Simon, Alan R (2002). SQL: 1999. Morgan Kaufmann. pp. 541–42. ISBN 978-1-55860-456-8.
  3. ^ a b Harrison, Guy; Feuerstein, Steven (2008). MySQL Stored Procedure Programming. O'Reilly. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-596-10089-6.
  4. ^ "feature T322", SQL standard features (9 ed.) {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |published= ignored (help).
  5. ^ plpsm0 (git) (repository).
  6. ^ Announce, PostgreSQL, 2011-5 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
  7. ^ 2012-2's Proposal PL/pgPSM announce
  8. ^ 2008's Guide.
  9. ^ "SQL Conformance", Documentation (9.2 ed.), PostgreSQL.

Further reading

  • Jim Melton, Understanding SQL's Stored Procedures: A Complete Guide to SQL/PSM, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-55860-461-8


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