"David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes: > On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> This is exactly the claim that I have zero confidence in. Quite >> frankly, the problem with Perl as an extension language is that Perl was >> never designed to be a subsystem: it feels free to mess around with the >> entire state of the process. We've been burnt multiple times by that >> even with the limited use we make of Perl now, and these proposed >> additions are going to make it a lot worse IMO.
> Can you provide an example? Such concerns are impossible to address without > concrete examples. Two examples that I can find in a quick review of our CVS history: perl stomping on the process's setlocale state, and perl stomping on the stdio state (Windows only). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers