Re: pltcl_*mod commands are broken on Solaris 10

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pltcl_*mod commands are broken on Solaris 10
Date: 2008-07-23 15:13:11
Message-ID: 48874A87.4080803@sun.com
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Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> By the way, these programs start with
>> package require Pgtcl
>> but we don't provide that library. Should that bother us?
>
> Hmm. The scripts actually depend on both pltcl and Pgtcl, so just
> pushing them out to the Pgtcl package wouldn't really improve matters.
> I think it's fine to leave them where they are ... though we should
> document the dependency.
>
> Actually it looks like it's been a very long time since these scripts
> got any love anyway. There's no reason anymore to split modules into
> multiple rows (not since TOAST...) and they're not schema-safe either.
> Anybody feel like cleaning them up? Or should we leave 'em as-is
> for compatibility reasons?

Just a dumb question, does we need this functionality? Does anybody use it?

Zdenek

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