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For building PL/Perl, PL/Python, and PL/Tcl, we need a shared library of libperl, libpython, and libtcl, respectively. Previously, this was checked in the makefiles, skipping the PL build with a warning if no shared library was available. Now this is checked in configure, with an error if no shared library is available. The previous situation arose because in the olden days, the configure options --with-perl, --with-python, and --with-tcl controlled whether frontend interfaces for those languages would be built. The procedural languages were added later, and shared libraries were often not available in the beginning. So it was decided skip the builds of the procedural languages in those cases. The frontend interfaces have since been removed from the tree, and shared libraries are now available most of the time, so that setup makes much less sense now. Also, the new setup allows contrib modules and pgxs users to rely on the respective PLs being available based on configure flags.
PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here: http://www.postgresql.org/download See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at http://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.