Re: Proposal for new PL/Perl README - Mailing list pgsql-general

Gilles DAROLD <gilles@darold.net> writes:
> I also proposed to removed the POLLUTE option by applying the
> following patch to the plperl.c file. It compile well on Perl 5.005_03
> and Perl 5.6.0.

... and will fail entirely on older Perls, before 5.004-something where
they changed the API.  The POLLUTE hack is at least backwards-compatible.

What we really need to do is revise plperl and interfaces/perl5 to use
Devel::PPPort, which masks the API change; but no one's got round to it.

            regards, tom lane