Re: Do you use PostgreSQL PL/Perl?

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler")
Newsgroups perl.dbi.users
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:46 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:

> I'm at PGDay Europe 2010 (http://2010.pgday.eu/)
> 
> On Tuesday morning (that's tomorrow as I write this) I'm giving a talk
> called "PL/Perl - New features in 9.0".
> 
> It would be a great help to me if I could get a better idea of how other
> people use PostgreSQL PL/Perl.
> 
> What kinds of things do you use PL/Perl in the server for?
> How much PL/Perl code do you have (approximate number of functions and lines)?
> What kinds of CPAN modules would you like to use in PL/Perl?

I used PL/Perl in the PGXN code to create JSON-parsing and -formatting functions using JSON::XS. It was nice to be able to just use those libraries (loaded at server startup with plperl.on_init) and have them just work, very well.

Basically, I go to PL/Perl when I need to do text processing.

Best,

David
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