Re: BUG #13638: Exception texts from plperl has bad encoding

I wrote:
> I suspect the root problem is that instead of baldly doing
> croak("%s", edata->message);
> in do_util_elog(), we need to do something to inform Perl what encoding
> the message string is in. This is beyond my Perl-fu, however.

BTW, if the answer to that involves turning the message back into an SV,
I think we should not do that but just use the SV that was passed in
originally. Then the TRY/CATCH could go away entirely, ie the code
would become roughly like

if (level < ERROR)
{
cmsg = sv2cstr(msg);
elog(level, "%s", cmsg);
pfree(cmsg);
}
else
{
croak-with-SV(msg);
}

which knows slightly more about the meaning of "level" than before,
but otherwise seems much less entangled with anything.

It's still beyond my Perl-fu ...

regards, tom lane