Re: BUG #5034: plperlu problem with gethostbyname

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Diego de Lima<diego_de_lima(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Using Fedora 10 default rpm packages, all updated last month via yum.

> I can't reproduce this on a clean build of 8.3.7 or on a clean build
> of CVS HEAD, both against perl 5.10.0, so I don't think this is a
> PostgreSQL bug. I'm guessing you have a bug in your code someplace.
> Here's the test case I used.

> create or replace function test() returns varchar as $$use
> Data::Dumper; Dumper(gethostbyname("www.google.com"));$$ language
> plperlu;

> select test();

Don't have Fedora 10 installed anymore, but the F-11 packages should
be equivalent, and on F-11 I get this:

test
-----------------------------
$VAR1 = 'www.l.google.com';
$VAR2 = 'www.google.com';
$VAR3 = 2;
$VAR4 = 4;
$VAR5 = 'J}';
$VAR6 = 'J}c';
$VAR7 = 'J}g';
$VAR8 = 'J}h';
$VAR9 = 'J}i';
$VAR10 = 'J}j';

(1 row)

I don't know enough about either gethostbyname or Data::Dumper
to figure out if this is sane or not.

regards, tom lane