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Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-05-18T01:24:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> >
> > >
> > > plPHP and plPerlNG both belong on pgfoundry, not in the core distribution
> > > ...
> >
> > Uhhh?? Are you ripping out all core pls then? plPerlNG is supposed to
> > replace plPerl, I was talking with Bruce and he seemed to think that (as
> > long as the code was good enough) that we could incorporate plPHP???
> 
> That is the plan ... unless someone knows a reason why they can't be built
> independently of the core?  ecpg relies on the grammar files in core, but
> as far as I knew (please correct me if I'm wrong) the pls only rely on
> headers and libraries that get installed ...

Server-side languages are tied into the backend even closer than the
user data types.  They are best in the core distribution.  We didn't put
plR in core because it had a conflicting license.

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