Re: PG 8.1beta3 out soon

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PG 8.1beta3 out soon
Date: 2005-10-11 13:38:25
Message-ID: 13535.1129037905@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> Actually, my take on your analysis is that there should be a way to get
>>> at "use warnings" (I assume that's disallowed in trusted plperl).
>>
>> Yes, we can't allow "use" in trusted code. But we could turn it on in
>> plperl.c, just as we can turn on strict mode, and HEAD already has the
>> infrastructure for logging lexical warnings - that's a new feature. I
>> will investigate turning the switch.

> I spoke a bit rashly here. The only way I have been able to make it work
> so far in the Safe container is via the global -w flag - everything else
> I tried failed, although it worked just fine for untrusted code. I don't
> have lots of time to spend working out why.

I think we'd best put this on the TODO list for 8.2. It's awfully late
in the cycle to be rushing through half-thought-out features ...

regards, tom lane

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