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Re: Feature patch 1 for plperl [PATCH]

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-10T22:12:16Z
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> As an example, if people were using such functionality then the DBA
>> couldn't start preloading plperl for performance without breaking
>> behavior that some of his users might be depending on.

> If we made plperl.on_perl_init PGC_POSTMASTER and the other two 
> PGC_SUSET would that alloy your concerns?

No, they have to all be PGC_POSTMASTER to answer that concern.  Only
breaking things for superusers isn't really that big an improvement
over breaking them for everybody.

			regards, tom lane