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Building and Installing PL/Perl

If the --with-perl option was supplied to the configure script, the PostgreSQL build process will attempt to build the PL/Perl shared library and install it in the PostgreSQL library directory.
Because PL/Perl is a shared library, the libperl library must be a shared library also. A Red Hat Database installation meets these conditions; however, if you use another PostgreSQL source and have problems, more...

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