Re: Including PL/PgSQL by default

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Including PL/PgSQL by default
Date: 2008-02-19 17:32:05
Message-ID: 20080219173204.GC23041@fetter.org
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:11:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > Let's put PL/PgSQL in template1 by default, as some downstream
> > packagers are already doing. If someone really must remove it,
> > they can still do that.
>
> This has been proposed before, and rejected before. Have you got
> any new arguments?

The longer it's been since the last vuln in PL/PgSQL, the harder it is
to argue for having it not be there by default.

Cheers,
David.
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