hstore_plperl

plperl : transform between hstore and plperl

Overview

ID	Extension	Package	Version	Category	License	Language
3262	hstore_plperl	plperl	`1.0`	LANG	PostgreSQL	C

Attribute	Has Binary	Has Library	Need Load	Has DDL	Relocatable	Trusted
--s-d--	No	Yes	No	Yes	no	no

Relationships
Requires	hstore plperl
See Also	hstore_pllua hstore_plluau hstore_plperlu hstore_plpython3u hstore plperlu plpgsql
Siblings	plperl bool_plperl jsonb_plperl

Packages

PG18	PG17	PG16	PG15	PG14
1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0

This is a built-in contrib extension ship with the PostgreSQL kernel

Install

Create this extension with:

CREATE EXTENSION hstore_plperl CASCADE; -- requires hstore, plperl

Usage

hstore_plperl: Transform between hstore and PL/Perl

Provides a transform for the hstore type for PL/Perl. When loaded, hstore values are automatically converted to Perl hashes and vice versa.

CREATE EXTENSION hstore_plperl;

CREATE FUNCTION hstore_to_text(val hstore) RETURNS text
LANGUAGE plperl TRANSFORM FOR TYPE hstore AS $$
  # val is now a Perl hash reference
  my $result = '';
  for my $key (sort keys %$val) {
    $result .= "$key => $val->{$key}\n";
  }
  return $result;
$$;

CREATE FUNCTION make_hstore(key text, value text) RETURNS hstore
LANGUAGE plperl TRANSFORM FOR TYPE hstore AS $$
  my ($k, $v) = @_;
  return { $k => $v };
$$;

SELECT hstore_to_text('a=>1, b=>2'::hstore);
SELECT make_hstore('color', 'blue');

Last updated on 2026-03-14

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