Re: [HACKERS] plperl intial pass

Mark Hollomon wrote:

>
> on the patches list, I posted the first files
> for suuport for using perl as the procedural
> language.

Congratulations!

>
> The makefile uses libtool (probably incorrectly).
>
> It is not 'safe'.
>
> Perl XS modules cannot be used.

What's an XS module? If it's a shared object dynamically
linked - don't care too much - PL/Tcl cannot either.

>
> Using Perl in rules hasn't even been thought about.

If a function works from a query, the same function must work
too in a rule because the rewriter only mangles up parsetrees
so when executing, they are invoked from a query. Or did you
mean triggers?

>
> IF the code looks suspiciously like Jan's code
> for pltcl - well, it _is_ Jan's code for pltcl
> horribly mangled.

What ya think where the skeleton for PL/pgSQL came from :-) I
just wrote my own SQL scripting bytecode compiler and
executor and placed them into the PL/Tcl sources.

Congrats again - great work - move on.

Jan

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