Re: lower function

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 17:26, Mage wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Mage <mage(at)mage(dot)hu> writes:
> >
> >
> >>It's serious.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >That's a Perl bug not a Postgres bug: libperl should not change the
> >process's locale settings, or at least if it does it should restore
> >the prior settings before returning. It doesn't.
> >
> >
> >
> I checked with show all, client and server encoding remained latin2, and
> lc_ctype remained hu_HU. However, the lower function got corrupted
> (encoding) until the end of the session.
>
> I can reproduce the bug on an Debian Sarge and on a Gentoo. Both are
> up-to-date.
>
> What should I do? Subscribe to perl list and tell about this? I have to
> write a trigger which can't be written well in plpgsql. My options are
> to learn python or tcl on basic level in one day. I am not sure I want
> and can do this.

You're far more likely to learn tcl or python or php in an afternoon
than to get a patched perl executable in that time.

But I'd still report the bug to them.