Re: plperl needs upgrade for Fedora 10

Pavel Stehule wrote:
> postgres=# select version();
>                                                  version
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  PostgreSQL 8.3.4 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc
> (GCC) 4.3.2 20080917 (Red Hat 4.3.2-4)
> (1 row)
>
> postgres=# CREATE LANGUAGE plperlu;
> ERROR:  could not load library "/usr/local/pgsql8.3/lib/plperl.so":
> /usr/local/pgsql8.3/lib/plperl.so: undefined symbol: boot_DynaLoader
> postgres=#
>
>   
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OK, I have got to the bottom of this. It appears that the Fedora people 
have for some reason best known to themselves decided to stop bundling 
the ExtUtils::Embed module with base perl, as it was before.

Once this module is installed plperl builds and performs just fine.

Maybe someone with Fedora connections could ask them why they would do 
such an odd thing. It's not like they are saving a huge amount of space.

Meanwhile, I think we should make our call to it in the config file more 
robust, so we detect the call failure.

cheers

andrew