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Re: pl/Ruby, deprecating plPython and Core

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

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From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-08-17T07:50:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:17:27PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 
>>I promise that the aggregate work required for all coders who know
>>Python to switch to ruby is far far greater than the work required
>>to fix the issues with pl/python. :)
> 
> Are you certain?  See above in re: what Guido had to say.
> 

I find the whole argument that, lack of an untrusted version of the PL 
means it should be deprecated, crazy. There are plenty of situations 
where you don't care that the PL is untrusted.

Joe