Re: plperl vs LC_COLLATE (was Re: Possible savepoint bug)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: plperl vs LC_COLLATE (was Re: Possible savepoint bug)
Date: 2005-12-28 16:41:25
Message-ID: 17797.1135788085@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> So the mere act of defining a plperl function, even with
> check_function_bodies = false, is sufficient to send control through
> that bit of libperl code that does setlocale(LC_ALL, ""). Ugh.
> This is much worse than I thought.

It seems one ingredient in this is that the plperl function validator
fails to honor check_function_bodies, and hence is calling libperl
anyway. I wonder if that explains the sudden rise in incidents in 8.1?

regards, tom lane

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