| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion |
| Date: | 2004-05-18 19:19:05 |
| Message-ID: | 200405182119.05758.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >One reason against including plPHP in the core would be that it
> > would create a circular build dependency between the packages
> > postgresql and php. I think we should rather avoid that.
>
> It is no different that the dependency between plPerl and Perl,
> plPython and Python or worse
> plTCL and TCL (which typically isn't installed anymore).
This is very much different, because the PHP distribution contains the
PostgreSQL driver, whereas the other languages do not. So you would
have
PHP build depends on PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL build depends on PHP
Not good.
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