| From: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PL/Perl list value return causes segfault |
| Date: | 2005-07-12 23:59:18 |
| Message-ID: | 20050712235917.GA87056@winnie.fuhr.org |
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:59:37PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Note that all plperl functions are called in scalar context, and it is
> always wrong to return a list (as opposed to a listref). In fact, the
> value received might surprise you even if it worked (it would be the
> value of the last member of the list).
Yeah, I knew that returning a list was contrary to what was expected, but
I wanted to see what would happen. I wasn't expecting a core dump :-(
Thanks for the patch.
--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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