My problem seems to be due to a 32-bit vs. 64-bit issue. I found this remark in the readme the came with the precompiled pg82 binaries: The PL/Perl and PL/Python languages have been dropped for now - they currently don't build 64bit. This led me to this page on the Apple site: http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/OpenSource/PerlExtensionsRelNotes/in... Sounds like I need to recompile my perl5.8 installation. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about compiling for processor architectures to know what to do. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Tim On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Tim Holahan <tim.holahan@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. I'm trying to install plperl along with postgres 8.2 on a MacBook running Leopard by issuing the following command:

port install postgresql82 +perl

Everything seems to go smoothly (see the output below my signature). However, after I create a database, attempts to CREATE LANGUAGE 'plperl' (and 'plperlu') fail in psql with the message:

ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/plperl": No such file or directory

The plperl.so and libperl.so files are nowhere to be found. The perl5.8port is installed.

I'd be grateful for any help with this.

Thanks, Tim

--> Fetching postgresql82 ---> Verifying checksum(s) for postgresql82 ---> Extracting postgresql82 ---> Configuring postgresql82 ---> Building postgresql82 ---> Staging postgresql82 into destroot ---> Installing postgresql82 8.2.6_0+perl

To use the postgresql server, install the postgresql82-server port ---> Activating postgresql82 8.2.6_0+perl