Curious: why plv8 is still not in the core distro? (apologies for top posting)
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 6:35 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > PG Doc comments form <nore...@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 > > >
