Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> So, do we look for another way to provide the functionality besides
> having a GUC, or is the functionality itself bad?
I don't think we want random Perl code running inside the postmaster,
no matter what the API to cause it is. I might hold my nose for "on
load" code if it can only run in backends, though I still say that
it's a badly designed concept because of the uncertainty about who
will run what when. Shlib load time is not an event that ought to be
user-visible.
regards, tom lane