| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(dot)wheeler(at)pgexperts(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: New PL/Perl failure with Safe 2.2x due to recursion (8.x & 9.0) |
| Date: | 2010-02-25 18:04:44 |
| Message-ID: | AEB40ABB-1892-4EA3-8090-F2BB8F480170@pgexperts.com |
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On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
>> That's two unacceptable alternatives, you need to find a third one.
>> I think most people will have no trouble settling on "do not update
>> to Safe 2.2x" if you don't offer a better solution than these.
>
> I believe the next version of Safe will revert to Safe 1.19 behaviour
> because the side effects of the change in 2.20 are too severe for it to
> be left enabled by default.
Which means losing sort $a <=> $b again, alas. Such was always the case in the past, so that might be an okay tradeoff to get recursive calls working again, but I certainly hope that Safe can be updated in the near future to give us both.
There seem to be no good answers here.
David
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