Re: Usability, MySQL, Postgresql.org, gborg, contrib,

Jon Jensen wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
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>>>>Seriously - I'd like to raise my voice in favor of installing plpgsql
>>>>in template1 by default. I haven't heard any good reason not to (nor
>>>>even a bad reason).
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>>It has to work with older dumps that will try to recreate pl/pgsql
>>themselves explicitly.
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>This wouldn't be a problem, though, would it? The dumps don't run inside a
>transaction so after the failure to create PL/PgSQL because it already
>exists, the import would continue as before.
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We could make it somewhat cleaner by having a flag on pg_dump that
allowed/suppressed the language creation for plpgsql.

cheers

andrew