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Saturday July 12, 2003
10:06 AM
extproc_perl - sweet!
Someone over on #perl pointed me to this talk which I hadn't heard of before called "extproc_perl: Embedding Perl in Oracle", by Jeff Horwitz.
This is pretty damn awesome. Imagine being able to search an Oracle database using Perl regular expressions. Or using a Perl subroutine as an Oracle stored procedure or trigger. Sweet!
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PostgreSQL has had this for quite a while (Score:2)
Re:PostgreSQL has had this for quite a while (Score:1)
Another solution (Score:1)
Another option available too for embedding Perl into the database back-end is PostgreSQL in the form of PL/Perl (or PL/PerlU if installed in the untrusted form) - The current limitations of this implementation of Perl though is that PL/Perl functions cannot call each other directly and that these functi