Re: New PL/Perl failure with Safe 2.2x due to recursion (8.x & 9.0)

On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> ISTM the easiest and safest fix would be to not allow recursive plperl
>> creations.  You could still call plperl functions within functions,
>> just not if they are not defined.  This limitation really blows
>
> That's the understatement of the month.  What you're saying, IIUC, is
> that if function A calls function B via a SPI command, and B wasn't
> executed previously in the current session, it would fail?  Seems
> entirely unacceptable.

Exactly what I was thinking. This "fix" is right out.

Best,

David