Re: Plperl trigger variables no longer global

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)endpoint(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Plperl trigger variables no longer global
Date: 2011-05-05 12:51:00
Message-ID: 1304599769-sup-6735@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Alex Hunsaker's message of mié may 04 23:53:34 -0300 2011:

> After playing with it a bit more I see 2 clear options:
> 1) make $_TD global like %_SHARED. This should not cause any problems
> as we make $_TD private via local() before each trigger call. Also pre
> 9.1 non trigger functions could still access and check the definedness
> of $_TD so if someone was relying on that (for whatever unknown
> reason) that will work again.

This is strange. Are you saying that there's no decent way to make a
variable global in C code? (In other words, the Perl code to create the
global var is indecently implemented)

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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