PM of Heroku Postgres here. Part of choosing JavaScript and in particular V8 was that its a fully sandboxed language. Other languages while also very powerful can have various security risks that come along with them.
In the future we may support additional languages and if there's particular ones please feel free to drop us a line at postgres@heroku.com and let us know which ones you'd like and why.
Thanks for the response. OK, I buy the security issue. My Javascript skills - once pretty good - are bit rusty so Ill have to brush up on it. But I do have an ides for a project and will download postgres later today.
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PM of Heroku Postgres here. Part of choosing JavaScript and in particular V8 was that its a fully sandboxed language. Other languages while also very powerful can have various security risks that come along with them.
In the future we may support additional languages and if there's particular ones please feel free to drop us a line at postgres@heroku.com and let us know which ones you'd like and why.
Thanks for the response. OK, I buy the security issue. My Javascript skills - once pretty good - are bit rusty so Ill have to brush up on it. But I do have an ides for a project and will download postgres later today.
PL/Lua can be installed in either trusted and untrusted versions.
http://pllua.projects.pgfoundry.org/
any chance of supporting fdw(foreign data wrappers)?
We're very excited to see FDWs evolve. In the future theres some chance we will support them, but no immediate timeline available.
postgres 9.3 is bringing writes to FDW and this will be really interesting