PL/v8 is a shared library that provides a PostgreSQL procedural language powered by V8 JavaScript Engine. With this program you can write in JavaScript your function that is callable from SQL.
The documentation covers the following implemented features:
- Requirements
- Installing PL/v8
- Install the PL/v8 Extensions on a Database
- Scalar function calls
- Set returing function calls
- Trigger function calls
- Inline statement calls
- Auto mapping between JS and database built-in types
- Database access via SPI including prepared statements and cursors
- Subtransaction
- Utility functions
- Window function API
- Typed array
- ES6 Language Features
- Remote debugger
- Runtime environment separation across users in the same session
- Start-up procedure
- Update procedure
- Dialects
PL/v8 is hosted on github at: https://github.com/plv8/plv8
PL/v8 is distributed by PGXN. For more detail, see: http://pgxn.org/dist/plv8/doc/plv8.html
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/plv8js