From: groenveld@acm.org   
      
   In article ,   
   Mladen Gogala   wrote:   
   >Jared Still and Andy Duncan. Be aware that the administrators of   
   >the most production databases will prevent you from embedding Perl   
   >or Python into Oracle database and will bitterly fight any attempt   
   >to do so, with good arguments. Allowing Perl or Python scripts in   
   >the database opens a whole can of security worms. I have been an   
   >Oracle DBA for around a quarter of a century and despite my fondness   
   >for Perl, I have never allowed it to be used from the database. The   
   >problem is that Perl allows too much and can trivially be used to   
   >compromise database security.   
      
   Just poll the database for new PDFs to spew out over email   
   to assuage the risk-averse DBAs.   
      
   Keep the interprocess asynchronous option in your back pocket   
   for when Larry buys your option pack.   
      
   ISTR that's how Oracle's text search option came to be.   
   John   
   groenveld@acm.org   
      
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