Re: Untrusted PL/Tcl? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Untrusted PL/Tcl?
Date
Msg-id 18850.963953701@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Untrusted PL/Tcl?  (JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck))
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JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck) writes:
>     While beeing in there, I could do something else too I wanted
>     to  do  for some time now. It'll break backward compatibility
>     to Tcl versions prior to 8.0, so if there are objections  ...

>     Beginning  with Tcl 8.0, dual ported objects got used to deal
>     with values. These have (amongst performance issues) alot  of
>     benefits.  Changing  all  the  call  interfaces would make it
>     impossible to use PL/Tcl with a  pre  8.0  Tcl  installation.
>     Since  we're  now  at Tcl 8.3 (the last I've seen), ISTM it's
>     not a bad decision to force the upgrade.

OK by me.  Tcl 7.6 is getting to be ancient history... and people
who are using pltcl for database functions are probably going to
want all the speed they can get, so making a more efficient interface
to Tcl 8 seems like a good idea.
        regards, tom lane


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