Re: [PATCH] Add transforms feature - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCH] Add transforms feature
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Msg-id 16748.1386778025@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Add transforms feature  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Here is an updated patch that implements this, makes some of the
>> documentation improvements that you suggested, and rebases everything.

> I'm still kinda unimpressed by this.  Behavior-changing GUC, uggh.

We should have learned by now that those are usually a bad idea.
In this case, we've got changes in the behavior of function calling,
which seems like not only a nightmare for debugging but a fertile
source of security issues.
        regards, tom lane



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