Re: [HACKERS] plPHP in core?

Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:

> In the past couple of years a lot of stuff has been removed from the
> core - even the ODBC driver (which is ways more important than, let's
> say, PL/PHP) has been removed from the core - so why should a new PL
> be integrated now if considerably more important components will
> remain external?

ODBC is a client side driver. It is not a server side driver. It does
not require PostgreSQL to be installed.

plPHP, plPerl, etc... all require PostgreSQL, they are a part of
PostgreSQL whether in core
or not.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Best regards,
>
> Hans
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>> I'm not convinced that PLs are more tied to the core than say
>>> OpenFTS, and if we can't maintain that kind of thing externally,
>>> then this whole extension thing sounds like a failure to me.
>>
>>
>>
>> It's *possible* to do it. Whether it's a net savings of effort is
>> questionable. For instance, I've had to hack plperl and plpgsql
>> over the past couple days to support OUT parameters, and the only
>> reason I didn't have to hack the other two standard PLs is that they
>> are a few features shy of a load already. I'm pretty sure pl/r and
>> pl/java will need changes to support this feature too. If they were in
>> core CVS then I'd consider it part of my responsibility to fix 'em
>> ... but they aren't, so it isn't my problem, so it falls on Joe and
>> Thomas to get up to speed on what I've been doing and do likewise.
>> Is that really a win?
>>
>> The point here is really that we keep finding reasons to, if not
>> flat-out change the interface to PLs, at least expand their
>> responsibilities. Not to push it too hard, but we still have only
>> one PL with a validator procedure, which IIRC was your own addition
>> to that API. How come they don't all have validators?
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
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