From: | "Petr Jelinek" <pjmodos(at)pjmodos(dot)net> |
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To: | "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "'Pavel Stehule'" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, "'PostgreSQL Hackers'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: plpgsql_check_function - rebase for 9.3 |
Date: | 2013-01-26 23:41:40 |
Message-ID: | 001601cdfc1e$b1348500$139d8f00$@pjmodos.net |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 26 January 2013 20:12
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] plpgsql_check_function - rebase for 9.3
>
> I wrote:
> > [ pokes around... ] Hm, it appears that that does work on Linux,
> > because for some reason we're specifying RTLD_GLOBAL to dlopen().
> > TBH that seems like a truly horrid idea that we should reconsider.
>
> A bit of research in the archives revealed that we're using it because
back in
> 2001, the lame hack that then passed for a shared-library version of
python
> required it:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/Pine.LNX.4.30.0105121914200.757-
> 100000(at)peter(dot)localdomain
>
> There was subsequent discussion of removing it, because reportedly now
> (a) that's no longer the case, and (b) we need to get rid of it to allow
> plpython2 and plpython3 to coexist in one session. See for instance:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-
> id/1277506674(dot)5356(dot)27(dot)camel(at)vanquo(dot)pezone(dot)net
>
> Nothing's been done about that yet, but I think that assuming that we'll
be
> using RTLD_GLOBAL forever would be foolish.
>
Ok then it was a bad idea after all.
Regards
Petr
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