Hitesh Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I need to be able to execute SQL commands from inside a plperl
> function and can't figure if I can do this.  Also.. after executing
> the query I need to be able to grab the number of tuples returned
> and there values.. how would I go about doing this.. any help would
> be appreciated.

As I understand it, PL/Perl doesn't currently have an interface to the 
server backend, so all you can really do with it is string and number
manipulation.  You'll have to use Tcl or PL/PGSQL for your functions.

-Doug
-- 
The rain man gave me two cures; he said jump right in,
The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin,
And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind,
Now people just get uglier, and I got no sense of time...          --Dylan

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