On Jan 8, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Tim Bunce wrote: > I didn't get any significant feedback from the earlier draft so here's > the finished 'feature patch 1' for plperl. (This builds on my earlier > plperl refactoring patch, and the follow-on ppport.h patch.) > > Significant changes from the first draft: > - New GUC plperl.on_perl_init='...perl...' for admin use. > - New GUC plperl.on_trusted_init='...perl...' for plperl user use. > - New GUC plperl.on_untrusted_init='...perl...' for plperlu user use. > - END blocks now run at backend exit (fixes bug #5066). > - Stored procedure subs are now given names ($name__$oid). > - More error checking and reporting. > - Warnings no longer have an extra newline in the NOTICE text. > - Various minor optimizations like pre-growing data structures. > > Additional changes from the second draft: > - SPI functions aren't available during plperl.on_*_init execution. > - Added utility functions: quote_literal, quote_nullable, quote_ident, > encode_bytea, decode_bytea, looks_like_number, > encode_array_literal, encode_array_constructor. > - Enabled plperl to "use"/"require" safely by redirecting the require > opcode to code that dies if module not already loaded. > - Corresponding changes to the documentation. > > Additional changes in this version: > - Added the missing ', arguments' to docs of spi_exec_prepared(). > - Added Util.c to list of files for plperl make clean to delete. > > I'll add this to the commitfest.
These changes all sound great to me, Tim, and if I can ever get my PL/Perl install working again, I'd be glad to find some tuits and review it. Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
