I am writing a Perl script which downloads and installs the MySQL sakila database. I need it run under Strawberry Perl 5.10. The part I am having problems with is executing a file of SQL against MySQL: 
for my $sql qw(sakila-schema.sql sakila-data.sql) {
    my $file     = "sakila-db/$sql";
    my $contents = read_file($file);

    print "\t$file\n";

    open my $fh, '|-', 'mysql', @opt;

    print $fh $contents;
}

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The error message is 
List form of pipe open not implemented at (eval 19) line 109
        main::__ANON__('GLOB(0x2f641ec)', '|-', 'mysql',
    '--user=root', '--password=passw0rd', '--host=localhost',
    '--port=3306') called at etc/install_sakila.pl line 56

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Now, it is not as simple as changing the input record separator to semicolon because certain sections of the file change the SQL delimiter to $$: 

DELIMITER $$

CREATE FUNCTION inventory_held_by_customer(p_inventory_id INT) RETURNS
+ INT
READS SQL DATA
BEGIN
  DECLARE v_customer_id INT;
  DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND RETURN NULL;

  SELECT customer_id INTO v_customer_id
  FROM rental
  WHERE return_date IS NULL
  AND inventory_id = p_inventory_id;

  RETURN v_customer_id;
END $$

DELIMITER ;

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Call mysql SOURCE would've been awesome, but that's only in the MySQL client, not in the server. So it looks like my options are:

  1. figure out some way to get pipes to the mysql client working
  2. figure out some way to emulate source in a Perl module

In reply to Executing a file of SQL commands against MySQL server by Anonymous Monk

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