Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Thanks for that. One of the reasons that I am contemplating this is that when I > built the server it wouldn't build PL/Perl since the underlying distro didn't > provide a libperl.so file. Now I could obviously recompile the distro's Perl > sources but that would mean I'd no longer have a common Perl architecture site > wide; I'm considering building a .so on a scratch machine and copying it to the > production server but I'm not confident that I understand every possible > implication. Or maybe you could install the development Perl package, which at least on some distros I know include the libperl.so file you need. If you weren't so misterious about what distro you are using maybe you could even find someone to tell you what is that package called. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support