Re: First feature patch for plperl - draft [PATCH]

Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
>> So, do we look for another way to provide the functionality besides
>> having a GUC, or is the functionality itself bad?
>>
>
> I don't think we want random Perl code running inside the postmaster,
> no matter what the API to cause it is. I might hold my nose for "on
> load" code if it can only run in backends, though I still say that
> it's a badly designed concept because of the uncertainty about who
> will run what when. Shlib load time is not an event that ought to be
> user-visible.
>
>

But you can load an arbitrary shared lib inside the postmaster and it
can do what it likes, so I'm not clear that your caution is actually
saving us from much.

cheers

andrew