Re: Segfault from PL/Perl Returning vstring - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Segfault from PL/Perl Returning vstring
Date
Msg-id 20091222192907.GA3949@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Segfault from PL/Perl Returning vstring  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> > I cannot reproduce this.  I tested with perl 5.10.1 which is the latest reported stable release at
<http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html>,on an 8.4.2 UTF8 database, and with the same Safe and Encode module versions as
above.
> 
> I've replicated it all the way back to 8.0. I'd be happy to give you a login to my box.

If a trivial plperl function can crash the server this is surely worth
some research.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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