On 1/11/16 1:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> There's at least one PL/Java implementation that does that. The
> interprocess communication overhead is pretty awful, IIRC. Don't know
> what they do about nested calls.
You'd think that pipes wouldn't be that much overhead...
>> >Obviously this is a lot more work than what you're proposing though.:(
> Yeah. I think what I'm suggesting is a back-patchable fix, which that
> certainly wouldn't be.
Yeah, and it sounds like we need one.
> The question of whether to do ERROR or FATAL remains open. I'm not sure
> I have a strong preference either way.
If they both get loaded is there risk of bad data happening? Personally,
I'll take a traceable FATAL (or even PANIC) over data corruption every
time. But I'm guessing that if you tried to use both you'd pretty
immediately end up crashing the backend.
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