feature freeze coming

Feature freeze is on Monday. I got in the validator function, and, at the last minute, a way to return a perl array where the function returns a pg array. Abhijit got in a patch to do cursor fetching the right way. That's huge.


We still need to revisit composite and array arguments, to turn them into hashrefs/arrayrefs. Then plperl will just handle such things naturally. And we need to support the polymorphic ANYARRAY and ANYELEMENT pseudotypes. At that point plperl will arguably be at least as powerful and useable as plpgsql. Pretty impressive


I also sent in a patch to put language handlers in pg_catalog instead of public. That means you could easily drop the public schema with no ill effects. Dropping use of public still needs to be done by contrib modules. We should really deprecate use of public.


Meanwhile, buildfarm email notifications are done. Members can put notification of just their hosts in their config file, and anyone can subscribe to the general digest lists. I have also started putting hard-to-harvest info on owner email addresses on the members, history and log pages, so that people with questions (e.g. Tom Lane) can contact them directly.


I am now looking at the best way to provide SubVersion for pgfoundry members. This also ties in with my day job, as I have committed to moving us from CVS to SVN. Of course, the pgfoundry setup is more complicated. But I think I can see how to do it ... more later when I have the scheme worked out.