Re: Java as PG Procedural Language

If you are using version 7.2.x, plperlu ("untrusted"
Perl) will let you use any of the Perl modules which
do the sort of thing you want.

To install plperlu, check the instructions under
"Procedural Languages" in the docs.

--- tom dyson <tom(at)torchbox(dot)com> wrote:
> I'd like to write a function that parses XML (which
> is stored in a table
> column), returning element values as part of the
> recordset. For example:
>
> SELECT id, title, XML2Columns(article_xml)
> FROM mytable
>
> I don't have a hope of writing something like this
> in C or Perl, but I could
> do it in Java, using Xerces. Has anyone successfully
> used Java as a
> Procedural Language for PostGreSQL? Or is it
> possible that a function like
> this exists already?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Tom
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