Re: Add on_perl_init and proper destruction to plperl [PATCH] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This is exactly the claim that I have zero confidence in.  Quite
>> frankly, the problem with Perl as an extension language is that Perl was
>> never designed to be a subsystem: it feels free to mess around with the
>> entire state of the process.  We've been burnt multiple times by that
>> even with the limited use we make of Perl now, and these proposed
>> additions are going to make it a lot worse IMO.

> Can you provide an example? Such concerns are impossible to address without concrete examples.

Two examples that I can find in a quick review of our CVS history: perl
stomping on the process's setlocale state, and perl stomping on the
stdio state (Windows only).
        regards, tom lane