Re: PG 8.1beta3 out soon

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> I don't think it's really a bug - it's a well known perl effect that has
> caught many people over the years, especially unwary users of
> Apache::Registry who fail to recognise that their scripts are being
> wrapped inside an anonymous subroutine.

Ah, ok, so it's a documentation bug! :)

> My take: we should document this better, but it ain't broke so it don't
> need fixing, although I would not object strenuously to changing the
> behaviour of $_TD.

Hmm...what if we did this?:

Index: plperl.c
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c,v
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diff -r1.92 plperl.c
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<       XPUSHs(sv_2mortal(newSVpv("my $_TD=$_[0]; shift;", 0)));
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>       XPUSHs(sv_2mortal(newSVpv("our $_TD=$_[0]; shift;", 0)));

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