On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:51:29PM -0500, Brandon Metcalf wrote: > I'm looking for details on the new Perl server-side language > introduced in 8.0. Specifically, I'm looking for changes between 7.4 > and 8.0 and if there are any backward compatibility issues. > > I checked the website and docs, but didn't find anything. The 8.0 Release Notes mention PL/Perl, although probably not in as much detail as you'd like: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/release-8-0.html "A new version of the plperl server-side language now supports a persistent shared storage area, triggers, returning records and arrays of records, and SPI calls to access the database." For details you might need to look through the pgsql-hackers and pgsql-committers archives. -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
