Thread: Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL v7.2 Final Release
On 5 Feb 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 19:11, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > > Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes: > > > > > On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 18:15, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > > > > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes: > > > > > > > > > For Immediate Release February 5th, 2002 > > > > > > > > > > After almost a full year of development since PostgreSQL v7.1 was > > > > > released, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group is proud to announce the > > > > > availability of our latest development milestone ... PostgreSQL v7.2, > > > > > another step forward for the project. > > > > > > > > RPMs for Red Hat Linux 7.2 can be found at http://people.redhat.com/teg/pg/ > > > > > > Why is just plperl included ? > > > > > > What about pl/python > > > > There is no shared python library. Linking in static libraries in > > dynamic extensions doesn't work on most platforms. > > Does that mean that one can't run pl/python on Redhat 7.2 ?? On IA32, it will work (with a performance penalty, "thou shall not use static libraries in dynamic extensions"), on other archs (alpha, IA64, S/390) it will die. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.
>>>>> "Trond" == Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> writes: >> > There is no shared python library. Linking in static libraries in >> > dynamic extensions doesn't work on most platforms. >> >> Does that mean that one can't run pl/python on Redhat 7.2 ?? Trond> On IA32, it will work (with a performance penalty, "thou shall not use Trond> static libraries in dynamic extensions"), on other archs (alpha, IA64, Trond> S/390) it will die. On Darwin, linking a static libperl.a works just fine, although it creates a libperl.dynlib, which I had to symlink to libperl.so to get it to load. Woo hoo. Embedded Perl. On #perl, we were already discussing having a Pg process put up a web-socket, or proxy through to another database with DBI. OK, we're crazy. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!