Commit e863951a authored by Alvaro Herrera's avatar Alvaro Herrera

Remove mention of DBD::PgSPI, which is unmaintained and generally unnecessary.

parent 66782364
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<chapter id="plperl">
<title>PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language</title>
......@@ -309,20 +309,7 @@ BEGIN { strict->import(); }
<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>
......@@ -412,6 +399,7 @@ $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
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
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