Re: I propose killing PL/Tcl's "modules" infrastructure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info>
Subject: Re: I propose killing PL/Tcl's "modules" infrastructure
Date: 2017-02-25 18:46:53
Message-ID: 23264.1488048413@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> I don't see a reason to keep pl/tcl in core at all so ripping out the
> functionality seems the least disruptive and perhaps even a deprecation
> of the PL (at least from a core perspective) in v10.

I'm not in any hurry to remove or deprecate PL/Tcl as a whole. It's
gotten more love in the past year than it got in the previous ten,
so evidently there are still people out there who use it. But they
don't seem to be using this particular part of it.

regards, tom lane

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