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Re: Add on_perl_init and proper destruction to plperl [PATCH]

David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-27T17:53:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> This is exactly the claim that I have zero confidence in.  Quite
> frankly, the problem with Perl as an extension language is that Perl was
> never designed to be a subsystem: it feels free to mess around with the
> entire state of the process.  We've been burnt multiple times by that
> even with the limited use we make of Perl now, and these proposed
> additions are going to make it a lot worse IMO.

Can you provide an example? Such concerns are impossible to address without concrete examples.

Best,

David