| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Add on_perl_init and proper destruction to plperl [PATCH] |
| Date: | 2010-01-28 01:02:53 |
| Message-ID: | 4B60E23D.2050505@dunslane.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> It's obvious that the people who want this are entirely willing
> to adopt a Pollyanna-ishly optimistic view about its potential
> to cause serious problems that we may or may not be able to fix.
>
> I don't really expect to be able to prevent something along this line
> from getting committed --- I'm merely hoping to circumscribe it as much
> as possible and get large WARNING items into the manual's description.
>
>
Well, we seem to have got much closer to what you can live with on the
END block issue, although we took a rather roundabout route to get there.
Perhaps with a little more work we can achieve something similar on the
on_perl_init front (which, in any case, I don't regard as being as
important as the END blocks, although Tim might not agree.)
cheers
andrew
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