Re: plperl fails with perl 5.28

On 05/22/2018 07:18 AM, Christoph Berg wrote:
> plperl fails to install with perl 5.27.11, which is to be released as 5.28.0:
>
> 2018-05-17 20:01:44.556 UTC [22629] pg_regress ERROR:
> 2018-05-17 20:01:44.556 UTC [22629] pg_regress CONTEXT: while running Perl initialization
> 2018-05-17 20:01:44.556 UTC [22629] pg_regress STATEMENT: CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "plperl"
>
> Unfortunately this is all what I could extract from the server log,
> even log_min_messages = debug5 doesn't print more.
>
> Origin: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=899209
>

This is repeatable on Ubuntu.

I have a tiny bit more info:

andrew=# load 'plperl.so';
ERROR:
CONTEXT:  while running Perl initialization
andrew=#

That means it's failing at line 860 of plperl.c.

Maybe we need to fire up the perl debugger ...

cheers

andrew

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