Re: I propose killing PL/Tcl's "modules" infrastructure

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Cc: Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info>
Subject: Re: I propose killing PL/Tcl's "modules" infrastructure
Date: 2017-02-25 18:39:14
Message-ID: 40b87715-b594-9106-16bf-f3a520871902@commandprompt.com
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On 02/25/2017 10:14 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Now, we could try to fix this bug, and add the regression test coverage
> that the code clearly lacks, and upgrade the documentation about it from
> its currently very sad state. But I think the right answer is just to
> remove the feature altogether. It's evidently not being used, and it's
> kind of insecure by design, and it would not be that hard for someone
> to provide equivalent functionality entirely in userland if they really
> wanted it.

I don't see a reason to keep pl/tcl in core at all so ripping out the
functionality seems the least disruptive and perhaps even a deprecation
of the PL (at least from a core perspective) in v10.

JD

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