Re: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell

On Sun, 31 May 1998, David Gould wrote:

> > 
> > Not to mention the fact that if perl (or mod_perl) is already running
> > (and you're using a shared libperl), the library is already loaded.
> 
> Ok, my vote is to build regexes into the pgsql binary or into a .so that
> we distribute. There should be no need to have perl installed on a system
> to run postgresql. If we are going to extend the language to improve on
> the very lame sql92 like clause, we need to have it be part of the system
> that can be counted on, not something you might or might not have depending
> on what else is installed.

	Odd question here, but how many systems nowadays *don't* have Perl
installed that would be running PostgreSQL?  IMHO, perl is an invaluable
enough tool that I can't imagine a site not running it *shrug*