Re: [PATCHES] Doc patch: New PL/Perl Features

David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:21:29PM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
>
>>Folks,
>>
>>Please find enclosed document patches for PL/Perl features recently
>>introduced in CVS TIP. These include:
>>
>>return_next
>>returning PostgreSQL arrays
>>spi_query/spi_fetchrow
>>use strict
>>
>>Cheers,
>>D
>
>
> Oops. Persuant to corrections and clarifications by Andrew Dunstan,
> please find enclosed a better patch.

Applied with editorialization; see comments below. Thanks for the patch.

> + <itemizedlist>
> + <listitem>
> + <para>
> + Globally, by turning on plperl (one of the <xref
> + linkend="guc-custom-variable-classes"
> + endterm="custom_variable_classes"> you can use) and setting
> + plperl.use_strict to true in your postgresql.conf, or
> + </para>

Needs a <filename/> and a <literal/>. Also the <xref/> doesn't compile
using openjade 1.3.1

> <para>
> + Perl can return PostgreSQL arrays as references to Perl arrays.
> + Here is an example:

Needs <productname/> around "PostgreSQL" for consistency with the rest
of the SGML docs.

> + <programlisting>
> + CREATE OR REPLACE function returns_array()
> + RETURNS text[][]
> + LANGUAGE plperl
> + AS $$
> + return [['a"b','c,d'],['e\\f','g']];
> + $$;
> +
> + select returns_array();

CREATE FUNCTION ... AS $$ ... $$ LANGUAGE plperl; would be more
consistent with the other PL/Perl examples.

> ! CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION perl_set()
> ! RETURNS SETOF testrowperl
> ! LANGUAGE plperl AS $$
> ! return_next({f1 => 1, f2 => 'Hello', f3 => 'World' });
> ! return_next({ f1 => 2, f2 => 'Hello', f3 => 'PostgreSQL' });
> ! return_next({ f1 => 3, f2 => 'Hello', f3 => 'PL/Perl' });
> ! return undef;
> ! $$;
> ! </programlisting>

Should probably use "&gt;" not ">".

> <term><literal><function>spi_exec_query</>(<replaceable>query</replaceable> [, <replaceable>max-rows</replaceable>])</literal></term>
> <term><literal><function>spi_exec_query</>(<replaceable>command</replaceable>)</literal></term>
> + <term><literal><function>spi_query</>(<replaceable>query</replaceable>)</literal></term>
> + <term><literal><function>spi_fetchrow</>(<replaceable>result of spi_query</replaceable>)</literal></term>
> + <term><literal>
> + </literal></term>
> <listitem>
> <para>
> Executes an SQL command. Here is an example of a query

This needs more work -- the difference in behavior between spi_query()
and spi_exec_query() is not described, so I didn't apply this hunk.

> *** 4103,4111 ****
> when using custom variables:
>
> <programlisting>
> ! custom_variable_classes = 'plr,pljava'
> plr.path = '/usr/lib/R'
> pljava.foo = 1
> plruby.bar = true # generates error, unknown class name
> </programlisting>
> </para>
> --- 4103,4112 ----
> when using custom variables:
>
> <programlisting>
> ! custom_variable_classes = 'plperl,plr,pljava'
> plr.path = '/usr/lib/R'
> pljava.foo = 1
> + plperl.use_strict = true # now without having to use pl/perlU! :)
> plruby.bar = true # generates error, unknown class name
> </programlisting>
> </para>

I didn't see why this was relevant, so I didn't apply it.

-Neil