A Procedural Language in JavaScript powered by V8 ================================================= plv8 is a shared library that provides a PostgreSQL procedural language powered by V8 JavaScript Engine. With this program you can write in JavaScript your function that is callable from SQL. REQUIREMENT ----------- plv8 is tested with: - PG: version 8.4, 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2dev (maybe older are allowed) - V8: version 3.6.2 - g++: version 4.5.1 Also all tools that PostgreSQL and V8 require to be built are required. INSTALL ------- Make sure V8 include files are in the system include directories, or you can place them in $(PLV8DIR)/../v8/include. Run make $ make install and create language via $ psql -c 'CREATE EXTENSION plv8' in 9.1, or in the prior versions $ psql -f plv8.sql to create database objects. TEST ---- plv8 supports installcheck test. Make sure set custom_variable_classes = 'plv8' in your postgresql.conf and $ make installcheck EXAMPLE ------- CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION plv8_test(keys text[], vals text[]) RETURNS text AS $$ var o = {}; for(var i=0; i