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

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Alvaro Herrera 2008-04-10 15:16:46 +00:00
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.68 2008/03/28 00:21:55 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.69 2008/04/10 15:16:46 alvherre Exp $ -->
<chapter id="plperl">
<title>PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language</title>
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<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>
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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