Re: Package namespace and Safe init cleanup for plperl [PATCH] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> My feeling is if we provide something we are responsible for it, documented or not. Undocumented features with
securityimplications raise big red flags in my head. Maybe the difference in perspective comes from working on a
databaseas opposed to working on a language.
 
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> I'm confused. Doesn't on_plperl_init already give us this? Isn't any of the stuff loaded by that GUC then available
frominside the PLPerl Safe compartment?
 
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No (and if it does it's a bug). Try it and see.

cheers

andrew