Re: [HACKERS] JDBC and Perl compiling problems w/ postgresql-7.1rc4

> What you may not be aware of is that there are two places where Perl
> is used in the build. One is the Perl client library (the 'Pg'
> module). This should not require libperl.so as all it does is build a
> bog-standard extension module.
>
> The other usage is for Perl as an embedded procedural language like
> PL/PGSQL. In order to compile this you need a shared libperl. It is
> not a "bug" in Postgres; it's simply what's required to embed the
> Perl interpreter into the backend.
>
> If you just want the client lib, I think you can ignore the missing
> libperl.so and the client will be built just fine. PL/Perl isn't that
> useful right now anyhow since it doesn't have an interface to the
> backend's query mechanism.

Great information. Thanks.

The reason I need to compile w/ Perl
support turned on is what I am reading
in the README.rserv of the ERServer
available in contrib directory.
It says that the requirements are:

- PostgreSQL >= 7.0.X
A separate Makefile is required for PostgreSQL 7.0.x and earlier
- Perl5 and the PostgreSQL perl interface

I am thinking that it only requires client lib as
the module compiles just fine. Can you confirm this please?

Regards,
HY