Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL v7.2 Final Release

On 5 Feb 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 19:11, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 18:15, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > > > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > For Immediate Release February 5th, 2002
> > > > >
> > > > > After almost a full year of development since PostgreSQL v7.1 was
> > > > > released, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group is proud to announce the
> > > > > availability of our latest development milestone ... PostgreSQL v7.2,
> > > > > another step forward for the project.
> > > >
> > > > RPMs for Red Hat Linux 7.2 can be found at http://people.redhat.com/teg/pg/
> > >
> > > Why is just plperl included ?
> > >
> > > What about pl/python
> >
> > There is no shared python library. Linking in static libraries in
> > dynamic extensions doesn't work on most platforms.
>
> Does that mean that one can't run pl/python on Redhat 7.2 ??

On IA32, it will work (with a performance penalty, "thou shall not use
static libraries in dynamic extensions"), on other archs (alpha, IA64,
S/390) it will die.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.