Re: Dynamic loading of Perl Code in Postgres functions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Harpreet Dhaliwal
Subject Re: Dynamic loading of Perl Code in Postgres functions
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Msg-id d86a77ef0701161255q52107983m8bd0ac78e5c461a3@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Dynamic loading of Perl Code in Postgres functions  (John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>)
Responses Re: Dynamic loading of Perl Code in Postgres functions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I was just wondering if one could use something like this
 
CREATE FUNCTION funcname (argument-types) RETURNS return-type AS $$   require "abc.pl"
$$ LANGUAGE plperl;
To include abc.pl here, how is the path of abc.pl specified. Also, just wondering if the structure of above function is correct atall at the first place
~Harpreet


 
On 1/16/07, John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com> wrote:
I assume your choices are to include the entire script in a
PostgreSQL function or simply create a small stub function that calls
a function you have loaded with use or require (as mentioned by the
other poster). But either way, you have to create a function so you
can tell PostgreSQL what to call, what the parameters are, and what
values should be returned.

John



On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Jasbinder Singh Bali wrote:

> So there is nothing called dynamic loading of perl code in postgres.
> I'll have to include the whole perl script in the postgres function
> you mean?



John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL


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