On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> 
> 
> Alexey Klyukin wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> When developing pl/perlu functions common definitions and methods are often 
>> stored in external .pm modules. During deployment the modules should be 
>> installed somewhere in @INC to be reachable by the perl interpreter. 
>> However, installing the modules to a location outside of the PG installation 
>> makes it hard to have a consistent environment when running multiple PG 
>> versions on the same host. What do you think about defining a canonical 
>> place for pl/perlu .pm modules (i.e. PKGLIBDIR) and adding this location to 
>> @INC during the interpreter initialization ? Another idea is to allow a user 
>> to specify such location by adding a new custom GUC variable.
>> 
>> 
>>  
> 
> Why won't setting this in the new on_perl_init setting work? It's even 
> included in to documented examples using the standard lib module: 
> <http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/plperl-under-the-hood.html#PLPERL-CONFIG>

The lack of support for SPI functions makes this hardly an adequate solution. I 
do have both modules and SPI calls in several pl/perlu functions.


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