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Re: First feature patch for plperl - draft [PATCH]

David 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>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-04T18:42:24Z
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On Dec 4, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> 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.

That's fine. It's relatively simple for an admin to create a Perl module that does everything she wants, call it PGInit or something, and then just make the GUC:

    plperl.on_perl_init = 'use PGInit;'

Best,

David