Re: First feature patch for plperl - draft [PATCH] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: First feature patch for plperl - draft [PATCH]
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Msg-id 603c8f070912041056k36518268lf6fb3ac56e4b1327@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: First feature patch for plperl - draft [PATCH]  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: First feature patch for plperl - draft [PATCH]  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> On Dec 4, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I vote a big no on this.
>
>> That's fine. It's relatively simple for an admin to create a Perl module that does everything she wants, call it
PGInitor something, and then just make the GUC: 
>
>>     plperl.on_perl_init = 'use PGInit;'
>
> No, you missed the point: I'm objecting to having any such thing as
> plperl.on_perl_init, full stop.
>
> Aside from the points I already made, it's not even well defined.
> What is to happen if the admin changes the value when the system
> is already up?

So, do we look for another way to provide the functionality besides
having a GUC, or is the functionality itself bad?

...Robert


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