Re: BUG #14117: psql and pg_dump commands should use ENV perl

On 2016-04-27 18:27:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> jsteffee@bepress.com writes:
> > We have multiple systems which use non-system perl for various tasks,
> > including perl scripts which test some pg_dump commands. These break because
> > psql and pg_dump are hard-coded with #!/usr/bin/perl instead of
> > #!/usr/bin/env perl. The PERL5LIB is set up with libraries based on the perl
> > called with ENV, where /usr/bin/perl has libraries compiled differently.
>
> Uh, what?  Neither of those programs use perl at all.
>
> We do have hard-wired uses of /usr/bin/perl in some scripts that might get
> used at build time, but those shouldn't really be an issue, especially not
> if you're using prebuilt packages, or even just building from a tarball.

I guess the OP is using the debian/ubuntu packages which have a wrapper
around most postgres binariers which tries to use the correct version of
the binary.

Joe, you might have more success opening a bug-report against either Debian's
or Ubuntu's packages.

Andres