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An article at WebProNews quoted from the PG docs as to the merits of
stored procedures.  I have added a bit more material on their merits,
as well as making a few changes to improve the introductions to
PL/Perl and PL/Tcl.

Chris Browne
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Bruce Momjian
2006-05-30 11:40:21 +00:00
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.54 2006/05/29 13:51:23 adunstan Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.55 2006/05/30 11:40:21 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="plperl">
<title>PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language</title>
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<ulink url="http://www.perl.com">Perl programming language</ulink>.
</para>
<para> The usual advantage to using PL/Perl is that this allows use,
within stored functions, of the manyfold <quote>string
munging</quote> operators and functions available for Perl. Parsing
complex strings may be be easier using Perl than it is with the
string functions and control structures provided in PL/pgsql.</para>
<para>
To install PL/Perl in a particular database, use
<literal>createlang plperl <replaceable>dbname</></literal>.