Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> Given the discussion in this thread, I intend to mark the commitfest entry
> as Withdrawn shortly. Before I do, I thought I'd first check whether 0001
> [0] might be worthwhile independent of $SUBJECT. This change separates the
> [un]trusted handler and validator functions for PL/Perl so that we no
> longer need to inspect pg_language to determine whether to use the trusted
> or untrusted code path. I was surprised to learn that you can end up with
> PL/PerlU even if you've specified the trusted handler/validator functions.
> Besides bringing things more in line with how PL/Tcl does things, this
> change simplifies function lookup in plperl_proc_hash. I suppose such a
> change might introduce a compatibility break for users who are depending on
> this behavior, but I don't know if that's worth worrying about.
Meh. Avoiding the potential repeat hashtable lookup is worth something,
but I'm not sure I buy that this is a semantic improvement. ISTM that
lanpltrusted *should* be the ultimate source of truth on this point.
My feelings about it are not terribly strong either way, though.
regards, tom lane