Installing Scripting Languages

The interpreted languages described in this chapter all require a database interface to be installed into the language. This task is done by either recompiling the language or dynamically loading the interface into the language. The following list gives details about each interface:

Perl 

Use loads the POSTGRESQL interface into the Perl interpreter.

TCL/TK 

TCL/TK offers three interface options:

• A prebuilt TCL interpreter called pgtclsh
• A prebuilt TCL/TK interpreter called pgtksh, like TCL/TK's wish
• A loadable library called libpgtcl

Python 

Import loads the POSTGRESQL interface into the Python interpreter.

PHP 

PHP must be recompiled to access POSTGRESQL.