Re: Plperl trigger variables no longer global

Excerpts from Alex Hunsaker's message of mié may 04 23:53:34 -0300 2011:

> After playing with it a bit more I see 2 clear options:
> 1) make $_TD global like %_SHARED. This should not cause any problems
> as we make $_TD private via local() before each trigger call. Also pre
> 9.1 non trigger functions could still access and check the definedness
> of $_TD so if someone was relying on that (for whatever unknown
> reason) that will work again.

This is strange.  Are you saying that there's no decent way to make a
variable global in C code?  (In other words, the Perl code to create the
global var is indecently implemented)

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