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PL/Perl

PL/Perl is a procedural language enabling PostgreSQL functions to be written in Perl.

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• PostgreSQL 9.4
  • support for event trigger functions added (commit e5dc4cc2)
• PostgreSQL 9.0
  • support for DO blocks added (commit 42b2907d)
  • following utility functions added (commit 05672e50):
    • quote_literal()
    • quote_nullable()
    • quote_ident()
    • encode_bytea()
    • decode_bytea()
    • looks_like_number()
    • encode_array_literal()
    • encode_array_constructor()
• 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 return RECORD and SETOF RECORD

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