Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>

Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, 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: 2004-05-18T19:19:05Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >One reason against including plPHP in the core would be that it
> > would create a circular build dependency between the packages
> > postgresql and php.  I think we should rather avoid that.
>
> It is no different that the dependency between plPerl and Perl,
> plPython and Python or worse
> plTCL and TCL (which typically isn't installed anymore).

This is very much different, because the PHP distribution contains the 
PostgreSQL driver, whereas the other languages do not.  So you would 
have

PHP build depends on PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL build depends on PHP

Not good.