Re: First feature patch for plperl - draft [PATCH]
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-04T18:36:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes: > On Dec 4, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Tim Bunce wrote: >> The perl code in plperl.on_perl_init gets eval'd as soon as an >> interpreter is created. That could be at server startup if >> shared_preload_libraries is used. plperl.on_perl_init can only be set by >> an admin (PGC_SUSET). > Are multiline GUCs allowed in the postgresql.conf file? I don't think so. In any case this seems like an extreme abuse of the concept of a GUC, as well as being a solution in search of a problem, as well as being something that should absolutely not ever happen inside the postmaster process for both reliability and security reasons. I vote a big no on this. regards, tom lane