From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: guettliml@thomas-guettler.de
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: user-defined function in Perl or Tcl ???
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:35:31 -0400
Message-ID: <3732778.1626442531@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <162642866206.699.9344569662402683004@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <162642866206.699.9344569662402683004@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
>> If you have pattern matching needs that go beyond this, consider writing a
>> user-defined function in Perl or Tcl.
> If you start from scratch today, it is unlikely that you use Perl or Tcl.
That statement is not that way because we haven't thought about it.
Of the options we provide in the core distro, plpython is less suitable
because it only comes in an untrusted form (for lack of any workable
sandboxing feature in Python). So plperl or pltcl is what there is.
regards, tom lane
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