Re: Wishlist of PL/Perl Enhancements for PostgreSQL 8.5

Filip Rembiałkowski escribió:
> 2009/10/6 Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
>
> >
> > Are we looking down the wrong end of the telescope here? What if we had
> > something more like the "C" binding for functions:
> >
> > CREATE FUNCTION foo(int,text,int) AS 'MyModule::internal_foo' LANGUAGE
> > plperl;
>
> > If you want inter-function calls you use internal_foo.
> >
> this really would be a great feature for many plperl users.
> ( I'm not sure how it breaks current PL model in postgres)

This would be a pain for dumps, because the user would have to install
the modules separately.  Maybe we could have a different language (say
plperl2 for lack of a better name) that could work this way; if you
really wanted to do this, you could.

Having plperl functions as separate files would be great for stuff like
syntax coloring in editors.

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