Re: pltcl_*mod commands are broken on Solaris 10 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: pltcl_*mod commands are broken on Solaris 10
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Msg-id 48874A87.4080803@sun.com
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In response to Re: pltcl_*mod commands are broken on Solaris 10  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pltcl_*mod commands are broken on Solaris 10  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> By the way, these programs start with
>> package require Pgtcl
>> but we don't provide that library.  Should that bother us?
> 
> Hmm.  The scripts actually depend on both pltcl and Pgtcl, so just
> pushing them out to the Pgtcl package wouldn't really improve matters.
> I think it's fine to leave them where they are ... though we should
> document the dependency.
> 
> Actually it looks like it's been a very long time since these scripts
> got any love anyway.  There's no reason anymore to split modules into
> multiple rows (not since TOAST...) and they're not schema-safe either.
> Anybody feel like cleaning them up?  Or should we leave 'em as-is
> for compatibility reasons?

Just a dumb question, does we need this functionality? Does anybody use it?
Zdenek


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