| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PL/Perl list value return causes segfault |
| Date: | 2005-07-12 19:33:04 |
| Message-ID: | 20050712193303.GA14060@alvh.no-ip.org |
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:59:37PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Note that all plperl functions are called in scalar context, and it is
> always wrong to return a list (as opposed to a listref). In fact, the
> value received might surprise you even if it worked (it would be the
> value of the last member of the list).
Hmm, I don't know if it's feasible to do in Perl, but maybe check
whether the function wants to return something in list context and throw
an appropiate error message?
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
"Nunca se desea ardientemente lo que solo se desea por razón" (F. Alexandre)
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