On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> This is exactly the claim that I have zero confidence in. Quite
> frankly, the problem with Perl as an extension language is that Perl was
> never designed to be a subsystem: it feels free to mess around with the
> entire state of the process. We've been burnt multiple times by that
> even with the limited use we make of Perl now, and these proposed
> additions are going to make it a lot worse IMO.
Can you provide an example? Such concerns are impossible to address without concrete examples.
Best,
David
