> Ask him how he is going to produce a PDF file using ANSI standard SQL.

Certainly for a simple PDF file that wouldn't be all that hard: you can
store the static PDF fragments in the database and retrieve them as needed.
A more interesting case would be something like factoring a large number or
perhaps emulating some of Dimitre's generalized functions?


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