Re: Perl 5.8.2 in Rawhide

[Lamar Owen <lowen pari edu>]

On Friday 05 December 2003 12:05 pm, Chip Turner wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lowen pari edu> writes:
> > The PostgreSQL PL/Perl module would also need rebuilt, AFAIK.

> Modules shouldn't need rebuilding; 5.8.2 is backwards compatible from
> a module perspective (and so far, it seems, from an embedded
> perspective, too).

Ok, maybe I used the wrong terminology.  PostgreSQL allows modules that 
implement procedural languages that run inside the backend server, executed 
from SQL statements.  PL/Perl is the PostgreSQL module that embeds perl 
inside the PostgreSQL backend, allowing the user to run stored procedures in 
Perl.  Since it embeds perl, and the original message said embedders needed 
recompile, I answered the way I did.  PL/Perl embeds perl in PostgreSQL the 
same way as mod_perl embeds Perl in Apache.
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