The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5066
Logged by: Tim Bunce
Email address: Tim.Bunce@pobox.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.4.1
Operating system: darwin
Description: plperl issues with perl_destruct() and END blocks
Details:
The plperl implementation doesn't call perl_destruct() during server
shutdown.
So any resources held by references, in %_SHARED for example, are not
properly freed. The perl interpreter never gets a chance to cleanup, it's
simply discarded.
Related to the above, plperl should also set PL_exit_flags |=
PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END. Currently any END blocks defined during
initialization get executed at initialization (just before perl_run()
returns). Any END blocks defined later never get run.
Setting PL_exit_flags |= PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END in plperl_init_interp() and
calling perl_destruct() will fix the issue.
The timing of the perl_destruct() call (i.e., early or late in the shutdown
sequence) doesn't matter much. You might want to make the spi_* functions
return an error if there's a shutdown in progress.
