Re: PL/php in pg_pltemplate

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> I have no objection to this, but it's not clear to me that it buys much
> either. AFAIK only very modern PHP releases escape the circular dependency
> issue, no matter how we arrange our source code. What versions of PHP will
> PL/PHP be supporting?

Currently PL/php builds using PGXS so you don't need to build it with
the rest of PostgreSQL.  This means no circular dependency involved.
AFAICS PL/Perl could do the same just as well, probably PL/Python and
PL/Tcl could too.

(I'm using PHP 4.4.1 to develop.  AFAIK it works just as well with PHP
5, but I haven't tried yet.)


The only sore point of the PL/php build is that it needs the Apache2
module, so it needs to know the path to it.  I haven't found a way to do
this automatically without requiring APXS which I certainly don't want
to do ...

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