Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> "Tim Bunce" <tim.bu...@pobox.com> writes:
>>> The plperl implementation doesn't call perl_destruct() during server
>>> shutdown.
>>
>> Who cares? The process is going away anyway.
> END {} blocks can execute arbitrary code. Perl users will expect them
> to be executed.
[ shrug... ] As a database geek I find the lack of guarantees about
that to be entirely unsatisfying. What exactly are you going to put
in that block? If it's actually important, are you going to trust
a mechanism that doesn't have any crash safeness?
regards, tom lane
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