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Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] plpgsql error

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 1999-05-12T14:22:37Z

jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:
>     I've  just  committed  a  little  change  to  initdb and it's
>     Makefile. The initdb Makefile now expands  __DLSUFFIX__  into
>     it  and  initdb uses $PGLIB/plpgsql__DLSUFFIX__ to test if it
>     is there  and  then  runs  the  appropriate  queries  against
>     template1. Same for PL/Tcl.
>     If  anyone  agrees we can get rid of these mklang.sql scripts
>     totally.

Well, I hate to be a party-pooper, but I don't agree: I like having
the flexibility of installing plpgsql into just selected databases.
If it's automatically included into template1 then I no longer have
any choice in the matter.

Perhaps this could be driven by a configuration switch?

			regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] plpgsql error

Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com> — 1999-05-12T15:06:09Z

>
> jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:
> >     I've  just  committed  a  little  change  to  initdb and it's
> >     Makefile. The initdb Makefile now expands  __DLSUFFIX__  into
> >     it  and  initdb uses $PGLIB/plpgsql__DLSUFFIX__ to test if it
> >     is there  and  then  runs  the  appropriate  queries  against
> >     template1. Same for PL/Tcl.
> >     If  anyone  agrees we can get rid of these mklang.sql scripts
> >     totally.
>
> Well, I hate to be a party-pooper, but I don't agree: I like having
> the flexibility of installing plpgsql into just selected databases.
> If it's automatically included into template1 then I no longer have
> any choice in the matter.
>
> Perhaps this could be driven by a configuration switch?

    Or maybe some switch to initdb and createdb?


Jan

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