Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6

On 08-Jun-99 Jan Wieck wrote:
> Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>
>> > If there's (only one) Perl PROGRAMMER out in the world
>> > reading this, who does see a (however small) possibility to
>> > explain how to integrate a Perl interpreter into PostgreSQL,
>> > RESPOND!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Well I'm a Perl programmer. I don't have a clue about how to integrate
>> Perl into PostgreSQL, but it should be possible.
>>
>> I'd like to help. I know Perl, but nothing about the internals of
>> PostgreSQL and I don't code C.
>
> That's the point and why I wrote programmer in capitals (REAL
> PROGRAMMERS STILL THINK AND TALK IN CAPITALS). It's not Perl
> script-writing what's needed at this stage. We need
> programmers that are familiar with the C API of Perl and
> could easily write things like the Pg package. And that's
> still not enough knowledge.

Ok!
I have no problems writing C package like Pg.pm to use with Perl 5.x.

However, IMHO all tasks requiring such packages
can better be done using C++ and STL.

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