Re: pl/perl and utf-8 in sql_ascii databases

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
<horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> Hello, Here is regression test runs on pg's also built with
> cygwin-gcc and VC++.

Thank you!

> The patches attached following,
>
> - plperl_sql_ascii-4.patch : fix for pl/perl utf8 vs sql_ascii
> - plperl_sql_ascii_regress-1.patch : regression test for this patch.
> I added some tests on encoding to this.
>
> I will mark this patch as 'ready for committer' after this.

Both patches look good to me..

> I've been stuck in mud trying to plperl work on windows
> environment. I saw many messages complaining that plperl wouldn't
> be built to work. For the convenience of those and myself, I
> describe the process of building postgresql with plperl on
> Windows with cygwin and VC++ I've done below.

Hrm, I don't develop on windows here, but out of curiosity, what were
the messages like?

>> - The remainder of the patch whic fixes the easy fixable leakes
>> of palloc'ed memory won't be ported into 9.1. This is only for
>> 9.3dev.

> What should I do for this?

Just let the commiter decide? :-)