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Chapter 39. PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language

Table of Contents
39.1. PL/Perl Functions and Arguments
39.2. Database Access from PL/Perl
39.3. Data Values in PL/Perl
39.4. Global Values in PL/Perl
39.5. Trusted and Untrusted PL/Perl
39.6. PL/Perl Triggers
39.7. Limitations and Missing Features

PL/Perl is a loadable procedural language that enables you to write PostgreSQL functions in the Perl programming language.

The usual advantage to using PL/Perl is that this allows use, within stored functions, of the manyfold "string munging" operators and functions available for Perl. Parsing complex strings may be easier using Perl than it is with the string functions and control structures provided in PL/pgSQL.

To install PL/Perl in a particular database, use createlang plperl dbname.

Tip: If a language is installed into template1, all subsequently created databases will have the language installed automatically.

Note: Users of source packages must specially enable the build of PL/Perl during the installation process. (Refer to Section 14.1 for more information.) Users of binary packages might find PL/Perl in a separate subpackage.

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