Re: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] plperl and regexps with accented characters - incompatible?

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, 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 ...


I tested cvs head which includes the patch on Solaris 9/SPARC with perl
5.6.1 and it seems to work fine.


Test output attached.

Steve


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