Re: plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> (Including PLs in the standard distro strikes me as a good idea, BTW.
>> They usually need maintenance along with the core backend code.)

> We could also say that keeping some PLs outside the core would keep us
> more honest in keeping the interfaces stable.

If we had a carefully defined interface between PLs and the core, then
we might have some reason to think it'd stay stable. But we have no
defined API, and thus there is hardly any chance that PLs not maintained
with the core won't break. I'm certainly not willing to agree that
anything the existing PLs happen to depend upon is frozen.

> Btw., one concern I have about putting this PHP thing in the core is that
> it would create a circular build dependency between PostgreSQL and PHP.

Hmm, that could be a problem all right ...

regards, tom lane