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| -rw-r--r-- | databases/postgresql74-plpython/DESCR | 12 |
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diff --git a/databases/postgresql74-plpython/DESCR b/databases/postgresql74-plpython/DESCR index 9057591c0ba..de958f2112c 100644 --- a/databases/postgresql74-plpython/DESCR +++ b/databases/postgresql74-plpython/DESCR @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ -PL/Perl allows you to write functions in the Perl programming language +PL/Python allows you to write functions in the Python programming language that may be used in SQL queries as if they were built into Postgres. -The PL/Perl intepreter is a full Perl interpreter. However, certain -operations have been disabled in order to maintain the security of the -system. +The PL/Python intepreter is a full Python interpreter. + +As of PostgreSQL 7.4, PL/Python is only available as an "untrusted" +language (meaning it does not offer any way of restricting what +users can do in it). It has therefore been renamed to plpythonu. +The trusted variant plpython may become available again in future, +if a new secure execution mechanism is developed in Python. |