Re: warning handling in Perl scripts

Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of lun jun 25 11:23:34 -0400 2012:
> On Jun 25, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > +1 for the concept of turning warnings into errors, but is that really
> > the cleanest, most idiomatic way to do so in Perl? Sheesh.
>
> It’s the most backward-compatible, but the most idiomatic way to do it lexically is:
>
> use warnings 'FATAL';
>
> However, that works only for the current lexical scope. If there are warnings in the code you are calling from the current scope, the use of `local $SIG{__WARN__}` is required.

So lets add 'FATAL' to the already existing "use warnings" lines in
Catalog.pm and genbki.pl.

I think the other files we should add this to are generate-errcodes.pl,
generate-plerrorcodes.pl, generate-spiexceptions.pl, Gen_fmgrtab.pl.
Maybe psql/create_help.pl too.

We have a bunch of files in ECPG and MSVC areas and others in src/tools;
not sure about those.

We also have gen_qsort_tuple.pl which amusingly does not even
use warnings.

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