Re: plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > (Including PLs in the standard distro strikes me as a good idea, BTW.
> > They usually need maintenance along with the core backend code.)
>
> We could also say that keeping some PLs outside the core would keep us
> more honest in keeping the interfaces stable.  The only maintenance that
> PLs really need to get are global search-and-replace bug fixes and making
> use of new server features.
>
> Consider, we already have (at least) Ruby, Sh, R, and Java language
> handlers out there, and we're not putting all of these in the core anytime
> soon.  The handlers we currently have in the core cover the most popular
> languages, but there should be room for serious external development.
>
> Btw., one concern I have about putting this PHP thing in the core is that
> it would create a circular build dependency between PostgreSQL and PHP.

Agreed.  I still want to know if we can have "safe mode" enabled and make
a trusted / untrusted version.  Is that workable?  I would very much like
to have a trusted version.