Re: libxml incompatibility

From: "Holger Hoffstaette" <holger(at)wizards(dot)de>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: libxml incompatibility
Date: 2009-03-06 23:48:56
Message-ID: pan.2009.03.06.23.48.56.645875@wizards.de
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:32:25 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Ugh! That is worse than a simple library link incompatibility.

http://www.nabble.com/New-libxml-which-is-reentrant---to18329452.html

Seems to me that Perl (?) is calling functions it is not supposed to call
- I'm guessing due to assumptions about mismatching lifecycles. The
parsing functions themselves are supposedly reentrant.

-h

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