Re: converting Oracle to postgres

Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my> writes:
> At 09:58 AM 2/7/03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> No, you still do need to do 'createlang' to set it up.  There's been
>> debate about whether to make it standard.  A paranoid DBA might not
>> *want* PLs available.

> Yes.

> Don't want a repeat of MS SQL Server. I'm sure there are people who need to
> format c:\, dir, etc using MS SQL. But most people don't need this stuff
> installed by default.

Well, we'd certainly never install any untrusted languages by default.
The trusted languages don't let you do anything you couldn't do anyway,
given that you have SQL command access.

Nonetheless, paranoia is a good thing.

            regards, tom lane