Re: libpq environment variables in the server - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2019-03-15 05:00, Noah Misch wrote:
> I consider the following style more idiomatic:
> 
>  {
>      local %ENV;
>      delete $ENV{PGAPPNAME};
>      ...
>  }

That doesn't work because the first line clears the entire environment.

What does work is

{
    delete local $ENV{PGAPPNAME};
    ...
}

But that is documented as new in Perl 5.12.0, so we might not be able to
use it.  It appears to work in the 5.8.9 I have lying around, so I'm
confused.

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