| From: | Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | guettliml(at)thomas-guettler(dot)de, Pg Docs <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: user-defined function in Perl or Tcl ??? |
| Date: | 2021-07-17 05:56:31 |
| Message-ID: | CANNMO+Jjuk5dd5gdKzStsusdaiH1uWkAJeerkf4zKEQ13kq9og@mail.gmail.com |
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Curious: why plv8 is still not in the core distro?
(apologies for top posting)
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 6:35 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> >> If you have pattern matching needs that go beyond this, consider
> writing a
> >> user-defined function in Perl or Tcl.
>
> > If you start from scratch today, it is unlikely that you use Perl or Tcl.
>
> That statement is not that way because we haven't thought about it.
>
> Of the options we provide in the core distro, plpython is less suitable
> because it only comes in an untrusted form (for lack of any workable
> sandboxing feature in Python). So plperl or pltcl is what there is.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
>
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