Re: a common place for pl/perlu modules

Alexey Klyukin wrote:
> Hello,
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> When developing pl/perlu functions common definitions and methods are often stored in external .pm modules. During
deploymentthe modules should be installed somewhere in @INC to be reachable by the perl interpreter. However,
installingthe modules to a location outside of the PG installation makes it hard to have a consistent environment when
runningmultiple PG versions on the same host. What do you think about defining a canonical place for pl/perlu .pm
modules(i.e. PKGLIBDIR) and adding this location to @INC during the interpreter initialization ? Another idea is to
allowa user to specify such location by adding a new custom GUC variable.
 
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Why won't setting this in the new on_perl_init setting work? It's even 
included in to documented examples using the standard lib module: 
<http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/plperl-under-the-hood.html#PLPERL-CONFIG>

cheers

andrew