Re: Missing plperl.so

 --Grain o' Salt Necessary: Relative Newbie--

I had thought, though I haven't tried it, that you need to compile perl as a
"shared perl" before you could get the perl postgresql interface to work...
 -J

John Burski writes:

> I've run into a bit of a snag while attempting to run "createlang" for
> plperl - the plperl.so file is not resident on my system (version 7.0.3 on
> Red Hat 6.1).  All of the PostgreSQL related software was installed using
> RPMs.  Here's the results of running "rpm -qa | grep postgres":
>
> postgresql-perl-7.0.3-2
> postgresql-python-7.0.3-2
> postgresql-tcl-7.0.3-2
> postgresql-jdbc-7.0.3-2
> postgresql-devel-7.0.3-2
> postgresql-odbc-7.0.3-2
> postgresql-tk-7.0.3-2
> postgresql-7.0.3-2
> postgresql-server-7.0.3-2
> postgresql-test-7.0.3-2
>
> I've run a "rpm -ql" command for all the listed packages, but the file in
> question isn't shown in any of them.  Where might I find the plperl.so
> file if it's not in any of the RPMs?
>
> Thanks.
>
> OH, BTW, Happy Thanksgiving to y'all!
>
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