Re: pl/Perl

FYI,

My choice:
if involving a lot of regular expressions, pl/Perl is better;
if involving a lot of SQLs or other functions(or store procedures),
then pl/pgsql is better.

Jie LIANG

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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jeff MacDonald wrote:

> > > 1: can you call other stored procedures from within pl/Perl
> > No.
>
> darn.
>
> >
> > > 2: from within a pl/Perl script , can i do a select etc..
> > > i'm assuming no, because you cannot use DBI.. but just wondering
> > > if there is a way..
> > Not currently.
>
> darn.
>
> > > 3: installing it.. i installed postgres 7.0.3 from ports on my fbsd system.
> > > when i tried to install pl/perl i get this..
> > >
> > > cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7/work/postgresql-7.0.2/src/pl/plperl/
> > > perl Makefile.pl
> > > make
> > Try using gmake instead of make (cd /usr/ports/devel/gmake, make)
>
> thanks ! works great.
>
>
> Jeff MacDonald,
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