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PL/Perl is a loadable procedural language that enables you to write |
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<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> functions in the |
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<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> functions and procedures in the |
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<ulink url="https://www.perl.org">Perl programming language</ulink>. |
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</para> |
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The main advantage to using PL/Perl is that this allows use, |
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within stored functions, of the manyfold <quote>string |
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within stored functions and procedures, of the manyfold <quote>string |
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munging</quote> operators and functions available for Perl. Parsing |
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complex strings might be easier using Perl than it is with the |
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string functions and control structures provided in PL/pgSQL. |
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