Re: Where is PLbash ??

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Peter, can we add PL/sh into CVS for 7.3?
> 
> I'm kind of against adding PL/sh to CVS, ever; and I believe Peter is
> too, else he'd have done it already.
> 
> I know you will say that PL/sh is not any more dangerous than the
> untrusted versions of plperl and pltcl, but there is a difference.
> PL/sh has *no reason to exist* other than to implement
> non-transaction-safe outside-the-database behavior; there is no safe
> behavior for which it is the preferred tool.  I think making it easily
> available is a bad idea, because people *will* shoot themselves in the
> foot with it.

Well, sending an email is something only PL/sh can do.  I don't see the
point if we document when it should be used.

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