Re: building 7.4 with plperl

Quoting Gianni Mariani <gianni(at)mariani(dot)ws>:

> Gianni Mariani wrote:
>
> >
> > Before I go deep into this - does anyone have the quick fix for this ?
> >
> > Some facts - the 7.3.4 version of plperl.c has the same errors in the
> > 7.4 tree.
> > The 7.4 version of plperl.c (with some error handling API calls
> > commented out) compiles fine in the 7.3.4 tree.
> > (Same machine - same install of perl !) Points to using some
> > alternate perl API probably by macro collision ?
>
> /* Define to 1 to build client libraries as thread-safe code.
> (--enable-thread-safety) */
> #define USE_THREADS 1
>
> So this seems to be the collision.
>
> --enable-thread-safety is a new option for libpq - however this collides
> with perl's use of the same macro.
>
> I suspect that the right answer would be to change the name USE_THREADS
> to PG_USE_THREADS for pg.
>
> Quick and nasty work around patch:
>
> --- plperl.c.7.4 Thu Sep 4 08:16:39 2003
> +++ plperl.c Mon Nov 17 23:07:05 2003
> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
> #include "catalog/pg_proc.h"
> #include "catalog/pg_type.h"
>
> +#undef USE_THREADS
> /* perl stuff */
> #include "EXTERN.h"
> #include "perl.h"
>
> another fix would be to make plplerl use the explicit api.
>
>
>
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I had this same issue as well but now I'm *slightly* concerned since most of my
code is perl. How soon would issue be reviewed? (not that I'm NOT going to use
your patch for right now).

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