Re: pl/{perl,pgsql} (was Re: AW: [HACKERS] triggers, views and ru

I must chime in and agree strongly, but I also have a query: do the
pointers for HeapStruct (and related form struct) ever have to be
re-initialized using the cache lookup functions?

On Mon, 23 February 1998, at 21:49:48, Jan Wieck wrote:

>     Direct  file  access  from inside a backends function is IMHO
>     never a good  thing.  This  is  the  job  of  an  application
>     program,  because  the  actually accessed file might be on an
>     NFS filesystem, this can hang and the database  backend  will
>     hang inside of a transaction where maybe even the DBA or root
>     cannot kill them (process is blocked inside a system call).
> 
>     This is IMHO a NONO.