Advise on how to install pl/perl on existing DB.

On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 12:32 -0400, David Gauthier wrote:

psql (9.6.0, server 11.3) linux

Hi:
I'm a PG users who has asked our IT team to install pl/perlu on an
existing 9.6.0 instance on linux. They really don't know how to
approach this. Could someone point me to a good step-by-step
(including ptrs to any downloads they may need) ?

Also, when they do this, will it require DB downtime ?

Thanks in Advance !

a) that says your server is running 11.3, not 9.6 (you might want to
update your own machine).

b) That really depends on how it was installed.

If they used a normal package repo they'll just want to install the
postgresql11-plperl package or equivalent, and then restart PostgreSQL
(although I'm not actually sure the restart is required?) and then do a
"CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;" in your database.

If they did some kind of custom installation then they might need to
just figure it out.

On 5/26/20 9:32 AM, David Gauthier wrote:

psql (9.6.0, server 11.3) linux

Hi:
I'm a PG users who has asked our IT team to install pl/perlu on an
existing 9.6.0 instance on linux.  They really don't know how to
approach this.  Could someone point me to a good step-by-step
(including ptrs to any downloads they may need) ?
Also, when they do this, will it require DB downtime ?

Your subject says pl/perl and the above says pl/perlu. So in addition to
what Alan said:

Trusted and Untrusted PL/Perl

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/plperl-trusted.html

Thanks in Advance !

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com