pl/Perl

david(at)fetter(dot)org (David Fetter) writes:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:54:30PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
>> johncwang(at)gmail(dot)com ("John Wang") writes:
>> > Thanks Lukas and Jim. The OmniTI presentation is great and along
>> > the lines that I'm looking for, presentations that are geared
>> > towards a technical audience working on deploying and adminstering
>> > the database.
>>
>> Speaking of presentations, does anyone have one on pl/Perl? Or
>> something that has a chunk of material on pl/Perl?
>
> I've got some slides from a PL/Perl talk I gave at FISL 7.0
> <http://fetter.org/Perl_and_PostgreSQL.pdf>
>
> The slides illustrate one cute thing you can do with PL/Perl that
> would be challenging any other way :)

Pretty neat, albeit brief. [And definitely done using Keynote...]

Something that strikes me as really useful would be to point to some
Perl DB access libraries as being either highly recommended or not
based on stuff like whether they hold transactions open. That's not a
pl/Perl thing, but it falls into what PerlMongers ought to be
interested in.
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