Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Date: 2004-05-18 01:24:28
Message-ID: 200405180124.i4I1OSt00599@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >
> > >
> > > plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on pgfoundry, not in the core distribution
> > > ...
> >
> > Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to
> > replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce and he seemed to think that (as
> > long as the code was good enough) that we could incorporate plPHP???
>
> That is the plan ... unless someone knows a reason why they can't be built
> independently of the core? ecpg relies on the grammar files in core, but
> as far as I knew (please correct me if I'm wrong) the pls only rely on
> headers and libraries that get installed ...

Server-side languages are tied into the backend even closer than the
user data types. They are best in the core distribution. We didn't put
plR in core because it had a conflicting license.

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