Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix breakage from earlier plperl fix.

On 01/05/2012 10:59 PM, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> After further digging I found it chokes on any non scalar (IOW any
> reference). I attached a simple c program that I tested with 5.8.9,
> 5.10.1, 5.12.4 and 5.14.2 (for those who did not know about it,
> perlbrew made testing across all those perls relatively painless).
>
> PFA that copies if its readonly and its not a scalar.
>
> I didn't bother adding regression tests-- should I have?

[redirecting to -hackers]

I have several questions.

1. How much are we actually saving here? newSVsv() ought to be pretty
cheap, no? I imagine it's pretty heavily used inside the interpreter.

2. Unless I'm insufficiently caffeinated right now, there's something
wrong with this logic:

! if (SvREADONLY(sv)&&
! (type != SVt_IV ||
! type != SVt_NV ||
! type != SVt_PV))

3. The above is in any case almost certainly insufficient, because in my tests a typeglob didn't trigger SvREADONLY(), but did cause a crash.

And yes, we should possibly add a regression test or two. Of course, we can't use the cause of the original complaint ($^V) in them, though.

cheers

andrew