Re: plperl/plperlu interaction

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>> Anyway, it is probably not expected by many users that loading a
>>> module in plperlu makes it available to plperl - I was slightly
>>> surprised myself to see it work and I am probably more aware than
>>> most of perl and plperl subtleties.
>>>
>>
>> I think that is a bug and needs to be fixed. We have the precedent of
>> pltcl, which uses separate interpreters for pltcl and pltclu for exactly
>> this reason.
>>
>>
>
> Fair enough.
>
> I am not sure what our release timetable is - and presumably this
> should also be backpatched if we regard it as a bug. I won't be able
> to do much on this front for the next 2 weeks at least.
>

There is one other wrinkle, that has just come to my attention courtesy
of Andrew(at)SuperNews(dot) This is what the perlembed man page says:

Now suppose we have more than one interpreter instance running at the
same time. This is feasible, but only if you used the Configure
option
"-Dusemultiplicity" or the options "-Dusethreads -Duseithreads" when
building perl.

Now my local perl (FC5/ia64) has usemultiplicity defined. I am not sure
how common this is.

Perhaps people who use other platforms could look for these flags in the
output of
perl -e 'use Config qw(myconfig config_sh config_vars config_re);
print config_sh();'

cheers

andrew