Re: Making plpython 2 and 3 coexist a bit better

On 1/11/16 11:51 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> We could ameliorate the first of these cases by putting the can't-run-
> with-two-pythons error back up to FATAL rather than ERROR, but I'm not
> sure that that would be a net improvement --- FATAL errors aren't very
> friendly.  In any case errors of the second type seem unpreventable
> unless we stick with the immediate-FATAL-error approach.

Something that's always concerned me about functions in other languages 
is that any kind of snafu in the function/language can hose the backend, 
which you may or may not detect. I've used other databases that (by 
default) spin up a separate process for executing functions, maybe we 
could do something like that? If we treated 2 and 3 as different 
languages you could actually use both at the same time in a single 
backend. The only thing that's not clear to me is how you'd be able to 
re-enter the process during recursive/nested calls.

Obviously this is a lot more work than what you're proposing though. :(
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