Re: [DOCS] [BUGS] BUG #1414: DOC - pl/Perl hash tags

Hi,

Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>In the pl/Perl section of the 8.0.0 manual, as viewed on the
>>
>>postgresql.org
>>
>>>web site, all perl code hash tags seem to be missing.  i.e.
>>
>>Yeah, I see the same; but it's not in the devel docs.  Compare
>>    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/plperl.html
>>    http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plperl.html
>>and look for instance at the empcomp() function about halfway down
>>the page:
>>   return $emp-> + $emp->;
>>vs
>>   return $emp->{basesalary} + $emp->{bonus};
>>
>>Any theories what's wrong here?
>
>
> Going out on a line a bit here - and someone who've worked with teh
> system probably knows for sure but... It looks like {} is used as the
> template placeholder in the templating system on the website.

Yes, that's exactly the case...

> It would seem to me that the fix would be as simple as to set
> $removeUnknownVariables to false when parsing the docs template, but I'm
> far from sure at that. And I have no way to test it. And it might break
> something else. End of disclaimers.

The clean solution would be to use
$tpl->setOption('preserve_data', true);

In this case there will be no problems even if a known placeholder appears in
the docs.

Sorry, cannot fix it myself right now, don't want to checkout the website code
as there is a sh*tload of PDF docs in there.