From: barries
Date: March 30 2001 10:51pm
Subject: Re: Perl + Mysql
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:45:52AM -0800, Dana Prescott Kennedy Powers wrote:
> perl('reverse($_[0]);', table1.column1); ). I have convinced myself that
> creating a perl extention ( similar to mod_perl's relationship to
> mysql ) is possible - Ive done it ;) - and can be done in a clean and
> stable way.

Too cool.  If we can figure out how to pull source code from a
"triggers" table in the daemon, we're set.  All we need do is write some
trigger classes that take a hunk of perl code (loaded from a table) and
compile it and call it.

> As usual the benefit of perl is not necessarily speed of code, but speed
> of coding.

If it were already written, I'd be using it today :-). 

- Barrie