Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> I got around to trying it with a dusty 5.6.1 I have laying about on my
>> HPPA machine, and the news is not good: CREATE LANGUAGE plperl dumps
>> core deep inside libperl. With or without this patch.
>>
>
>
>> As best I can tell at the moment, I have not tested 5.6.1 with anything
>> later than our 7.2 branch, so I don't know exactly where the breakage
>> slipped in. It may be of long standing.
>>
>
> Actually, libperl seems to dump core in the same place in every PG
> version, back to and including 7.2, so what seems more likely is that
> this copy of perl is just plain broken. Since we didn't have any form
> of regression test for plperl back then, it's entirely possible that
> I never tested any further than compiling plperl with that setup.
>
> So we still need someone to try it with a good copy of 5.6 ...
>
>
>
OK, I have built a fresh copy of perl 5.6.2 and built and linked HEAD
against it. It passes the regression tests and the UTF8 test, and
doesn't dump core. This is on FC6/x86_64.
cheers
andrew
