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PL/Perl
A procedural language enabling PostgreSQL functions to be written in Perl
PL/Perl
is a procedural language enabling PostgreSQL functions to be written in Perl.
Change history
Work-in-progress
- PostgreSQL 15
- minimum required version is now Perl 5.8.3 (commit 92e6a98c)
- PostgreSQL 9.4
- support for event trigger functions added (commit e5dc4cc2)
- PostgreSQL 9.0
- PostgreSQL 8.0
- following improvements (commit 1732cb0d):
- shared data space and namespace
- support for triggers
- records can now be returned as hash references
- new function
spi_exec_query()
PL/Perl
functions can returnRECORD
andSETOF RECORD
- following improvements (commit 1732cb0d):
References
- PostgreSQL documentation: PL/Perl