Re: question regarding regular expressions

Hi Cindy,

--On Montag, 16. September 2002 15:07 -0700 Cindy <ctmoore(at)uci(dot)edu> wrote:

>
> Tino Wildenhain writes:
>
> >> I'm looking at, it says that you must issue a
> >> createlang plperl <dbname>
> >> in order to make use of this in a particular database. Does this
> >> need to be done prior to populating the database, or can it be done
> >> any time subsequent?
> >
> >This can be done any time. And you dont have to stuck with perl,
> >even python (plpython) is a choice :)
>
> OK. I'm actually using 7.0.3 (it's supposed to be updated Real Soon Now),
> and the documentation:
> http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/app-createlang.htm
> doesn't seem to be helping:
>
> Text=# createlang -l;
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "createlang"
... erm. look at psql/bin! createlang is (like
psql, createdb, initdb, createuser etc) a shell command!

Hope that helps :)

PS: try to migrate to 7.2, it helps in many things. For example
you can turn on plpython with configure options rather then
having to patch it in.

Regards
Tino