Re: Residual cleanups for tied objects in PL/Perl

On 2026-08-16 Su 5:10 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 2026-08-16 Su 3:04 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> On 2026-08-16 Su 1:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> The test cases I have that reach these bugs require Perl "Tie"
>>>> modules that aren't present in common Perl installations,
>>>> so I'm not planning on trying to construct regression test
>>>> entries for them.  But I've attached two SQL scripts that
>>>> cause failures without the patch.
>>> Which modules?
>> At least Tie::Array isn't present in RHEL10's standard perl
>> package set --- I had to install "perl-Tie" to get that test
>> case to run here.
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> That seems odd, given that we use Tie::Hash and Tie::StdHash in
> src/pl/plperl/plc_trusted.pl
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>

Answering myself, it appears that those are part of RHEL10's perl-libs
package, while Tie::Array and Tie::StdArray are part of the perl-Tie
package. That seems at first glance like a really awful packaging
decision, something not entirely without precedent.

cheers

andrew

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