Re: -- Problem loading plperlu --

On Sunday 15 October 2006 23:19, Rafael Orta wrote:
> Hello Everybody
>
> I am planning to use db-link to be able to read Oracle
> tables from Postgres, however the first step of the installation
> manual points to :
>
> Load PL/Perlu into your database
>
> I understand the way to do so is connected as Postgres execute:
>
> createlang plperlu <database_name>
>
> But when I try to do so I get.
>
> -bash-3.00$ createlang plperlu smarter
> createlang: language installation failed: ERROR:  could not access file
> "$libdir/plperl": No such file or directory

It looks like plperl was not installed.  Since you are on linux, you will
probably need to rebuild postgres with perl support.  If I recall, that means
doing:

./configure --with-perl

You might also see this in the list archive:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2005-04/msg00278.php

Sean