Re: PostgreSQL v7.2 Final Release

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 ??

I was hoping that all the work that went into fixing various flaws in
pl/python during 7.2 development would result in it being available in
binary distributions too...

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Hannu