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<chapter id="plperl">
<title>PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language</title>
<para>
Access to the database itself from your Perl function can be done
- via the function <function>spi_exec_query</function> described
- below, or via an experimental module
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/APILOS/">
- <literal>DBD::PgSPI</literal></ulink>
- (also available at <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html">
- <acronym>CPAN mirror sites</></ulink>). This module makes available a
- <acronym>DBI</>-compliant database-handle named
- <varname>$pg_dbh</varname> that can be used to perform queries with
- normal <acronym>DBI</>
- syntax.<indexterm><primary>DBI</></indexterm>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- PL/Perl provides additional Perl commands:
+ via the following functions:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
SELECT * FROM test_munge();
</programlisting>
</para>
+
<para>
<literal>spi_query</literal> and <literal>spi_fetchrow</literal>
work together as a pair for row sets which might be large, or for cases