Language-specific initialization actions

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Language-specific initialization actions
Date: 2002-05-20 19:11:28
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0205191732290.4003-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In ProcedureCreate() (backend/catalog/pg_proc.c) there are special cases
for the built-in languages that check whether the to-be-created function
has a valid body. ISTM that we could extend that for user-defined
functions, as follows.

When creating a language, the user can optionally register a "check"
function for the language, whose responsibility is to check the supplied
function body for correctness and return a Boolean result. This function
would be executed at the time the function is created.

For example, for PL/Perl, the check function could execute the equivalent
of 'perl -c', or if we have a Java language in the future it could check
whether certain classes are loadable.

Comments?

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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