Re: Add on_perl_init and proper destruction to plperl [PATCH]
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-27T16:44:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote: > But in any case, I don't believe for a moment that profiling is the only > or even the largest use to which people would try to put this. > > > Well, ISTR there have been requests over the years for event handlers for (among other things) session shutdown, so if you're speculating that people would use this as an end run around our lack of such things you could be right. Maybe providing for such handlers in a more general and at the same time more safe way would be an alternative. cheers andrew