Re: Curious plperl behavior

On 24/02/10 21:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> Richard Huxton<dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:
>> On 24/02/10 20:55, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> but if plperl is doing something that contributes to this, maybe it
>>> requires documentation.
>
>> It is documented.
>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/plperl-funcs.html

> Hmm. Jeff found some relevant material on perlref. Should that link be
> added? Should the link(s) be more specific than telling you to read the
> whole d*mn man page? Neither of those pages are short, and each contains
> a wealth of material that isn't related to this issue.

Hmm - perhaps a suggestion to google for "perl nested named subroutine".
That seems to give a set of relevant results. Includes perldiag,
perlref, our mailing lists and Apache's mod_perl (which makes sense).

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd