On Apr 7, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Carlos Moreno wrote:

The thing seems to work -- I had to go in a shell as user
postgres and execute the command:

$ createlang -d dbname plpgsql

(I'm not sure I understand why that is necessary, or
what implications -- positive or negative -- it may have)

As a security measure, no pl language is available by default. What you did is correct. There is not much (any?) risk with pl/pgsql, so you can install it in template1 so it will be available in any new database you create.



Am I doing the right thing? Have I introduced some sort of catastrophe waiting to happen?

I did not notice any problems.


John DeSoi, Ph.D. http://pgedit.com/ Power Tools for PostgreSQL


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