Re: Shared Objects (Dynamic loading)

On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 03:32:37PM -0400, Jasbinder Bali wrote:
> Do we have any concept of shared objects in perl.
> Just wondering, how do we dynamically load something written in perl in
> postgresql.

A PL/Perl function can load external code with "use", "require",
or "do".  Since those are potentially dangerous operations you'll
need to create the function with plperlu, which means you'll need
to create the function as a database superuser.  See "Trusted and
Untrusted PL/Perl" in the documentation for more information.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plperl-trusted.html

Regarding "use", "require", and "do" see the Perl documentation,
in particular the perlfunc and perlmod manual pages.

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Michael Fuhr