From: Samuel Kvarnbrink Date: 2004-01-06T21:43:47+09:00 Subject: Re: plruby in PG distribution Well, I don't know why it isn't included in the standard PG distribution, but I guess the PG team prioritize stability over features. The current version of plruby is not 100% stable - I've been getting some very strange (and seemingly random) segfaults when using plruby triggers, causing the entire database system to crash... //samuel 2004-01-06 kl. 13.15 skrev David Garamond: > I am wondering why plruby has not been included with the PostgreSQL > distribution. It has been around for quite a while. Is there a license > compatibility problem or a cold response from the PG development team? > I myself find plruby to be quite interesting, especially since > plpython has become "plpythonu" in 7.4 and plperl still can't be used > for triggers. I believe that for most people, Ruby should be the next > best choice when Perl and Python is not available. > > Or isn't there anyone using plruby? I thought that Japanese users > especially should be the potential users since Ruby is more popular > there than Python. Also PG is not threaded at the moment so no problem > with Ruby's lack of OS threads. Also as a side note, Bruce Momjian is > currently being employed by a Japanese company... > > -- > dave > >