Re: libxml incompatibility

From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: libxml incompatibility
Date: 2009-03-06 20:32:25
Message-ID: 20090306203225.GC13289@it.is.rice.edu
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that if you load libxml into a backend for whatever reason (say
>> you create a table with a column of type xml) and then create a plperlu
>> function that "use XML::LibXML", we get a segmentation fault.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yes, I discovered this a few weeks ago. It looks like libxml is not
> reentrant, so for perl you need to use some other XML library. Very
> annoying.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
Ugh! That is worse than a simple library link incompatibility.

Ken

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