> > Doug Sampson <dougs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > orion-root@/usr/ports: make search name=postgresql-plperl > > > Port: postgresql-plperl-7.4.25_1 > > > > It would appear that you forgot to update plperl to 8.4 along with > > the core postgres package ... the error message is not tremendously > > informative but it seems consistent with the idea of trying to load > > a 7.4-vintage plperl.so into a modern backend. > > > > I'm no PGSQL expert. Neither am I a FreeBSD expert. > > How does one build plperl support into a FreeBSD port of > postgresql-server [...] > > Or am I going about this the wrong way? Should I install the > p5-postgresql-plperl port even though it states that this > ports depends on > or are depended by postgresql 7.4 server/client and perl > 5.8.9? Will the > p5-postgresql-plperl work with version 8.4.0_1 of PGSQL and > Perl 5.10.1? > > ~Doug > I went ahead and installed the p5-postgresql-plperl port and it installed cleanly. The 'createlang plperl erp' command went through fine. The installation recognized correctly the current versions of both PGSQL and Perl and used them. I am puzzled though as to why it wasn't installed previously for the older version of PGSQL which apparently had PLPerl support! Thanks for the assistance! ~Doug -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general