Re: putting plproxy in pg_pltemplate - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: putting plproxy in pg_pltemplate
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Msg-id 1279299871-sup-3429@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: putting plproxy in pg_pltemplate  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie jul 16 12:49:25 -0400 2010:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > On fre, 2010-07-16 at 14:13 +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> >> Should we put some externally managed languages , like pl/proxy also in
> >> pgtemplate, so that CREATE LANGUAGE would work on them ?
> 
> > This has been rejected several times before.  See:
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-01/msg00050.php
> 
> Note that there's nothing stopping a DBA from putting new entries in
> pg_pltemplate within his installation.  Peter's points are valid reasons
> why we should be wary of putting entries into our distribution --- it's
> hard to control this sort of stuff over the timescale of a PG major
> release.  But per-installation it doesn't seem unreasonable.

Since a week ago, PL/php ships a small install.sql script that adds a
pg_pltemplate entry.  This seems easy enough for the DBA.


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