Re: Where is PLbash ??

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:52:41PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Peter, can we add PL/sh into CVS for 7.3?
>
> I'm kind of against adding PL/sh to CVS, ever; and I believe Peter is
> too, else he'd have done it already.
>
> I know you will say that PL/sh is not any more dangerous than the
> untrusted versions of plperl and pltcl, but there is a difference.
> PL/sh has *no reason to exist* other than to implement
> non-transaction-safe outside-the-database behavior; there is no safe
> behavior for which it is the preferred tool. I think making it easily
> available is a bad idea, because people *will* shoot themselves in the
> foot with it.

:-) In my Debian is available a lot of non-safe programs and utils...

I think people have own brain and if documentation warn about PL/sh
it's enough. (BTW, default Apache distribution contains shell based
CGI script and people can write others own shell scripts -- it's
interesting, but people more use PHP/Perl/Python/etc. Why? Because
they good know what is better/safe.)

Karel

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