If you don't happen to be a Perl expert, PL/Python might be the right thing for you. Python has been part of the PostgreSQL infrastructure for a long time and is therefore a solid, well- tested implementation.
When it comes to PL/Python, there is one thing you have to keep in mind: PL/Python is only available as an untrusted language. From a security point of view, it is important to keep that in mind at all times.
To enable PL/Python, you can run the following line from your command line. test is the name of the database you want to use with PL/Python:
createlang plpythonu test
Once the language is enabled, it is already possible to write code.
Alternatively, you can use a CREATE LANGUAGE clause, of course. Also keep ...
