From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: RDS and postgres extension approval
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:47:12 -0400
Message-ID: <20211026194712.GA12921@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f476c48e-12ac-703e-d6fd-987c45b5f785@gmail.com>
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<f476c48e-12ac-703e-d6fd-987c45b5f785@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:20:32PM -0400, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> You should try PLPerl. That extension is supported by RDS:
>
> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_PostgreSQL.html#
> PostgreSQL.Concepts.General.FeatureSupport.Extensions.12x
>
> Your code will look prettier, thanks to perltidy. You will also get the whole
> of CPAN in your toolkit. Above all, you will not have to use COBOL-like
> tabulation. Whatever you can do in Python, you can also do in Perl. And, as
> always, use strict.
Yes. fundamentally, Perl has a sandbox mode that allows it to run in
trusted and untrusted mode, while Python does not have a sandbox mode so
can only be used in untrusted mode.
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