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Re: First feature patch for plperl - draft [PATCH]

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-05T18:28:04Z
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Tom Lane escribió:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> > Tom, what's your objection to Shlib load time being user-visible?
> 
> It's not really designed to be user-visible.  Let me give you just
> two examples:
> 
> * We call a plperl function for the first time in a session, causing
> plperl.so to be loaded.  Later the transaction fails and is rolled
> back.

I don't think there's any way for this to work sanely unless the library
has been loaded previously.  What about allowing those settings only if
plperl is specified in shared_preload_libraries?

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