David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>> I'm confused. Doesn't on_plperl_init already give us this? Isn't any of the stuff loaded by that GUC then available from inside the PLPerl Safe compartment?
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>> No (and if it does it's a bug). Try it and see.
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> Then what's the point of it?
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To perform initialisation, such as setting a value in %_SHARED.
cheers
andrew