| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Residual cleanups for tied objects in PL/Perl |
| Date: | 2026-08-17 18:58:07 |
| Message-ID: | 930962.1786993087@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> 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.
Poking around, it looks like they may have done that because
parent.pm ("use parent" support) requires Tie::StdHash, and they
wanted that in the base installation. It does seem pretty strange
though. There is not much in perl-Tie:
$ rpm -ql perl-Tie
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::Array.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::Handle.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::Scalar.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::StdHandle.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Tie::SubstrHash.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/Tie
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/Array.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/Handle.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/Scalar.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/StdHandle.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Tie/SubstrHash.pm
I see the same division in RHEL9. Don't have a live RHEL8
installation to check anymore.
regards, tom lane
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