"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Dec 4, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I vote a big no on this.
> That's fine. It's relatively simple for an admin to create a Perl module that does everything she wants, call it PGInit or something, and then just make the GUC:
> plperl.on_perl_init = 'use PGInit;'
No, you missed the point: I'm objecting to having any such thing as
plperl.on_perl_init, full stop.
Aside from the points I already made, it's not even well defined.
What is to happen if the admin changes the value when the system
is already up?
regards, tom lane