Re: libxml incompatibility

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Holger Hoffstaette <holger(at)wizards(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: libxml incompatibility
Date: 2009-03-07 03:55:17
Message-ID: 20090307035517.GN3901@alvh.no-ip.org
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
>
>> http://www.nabble.com/New-libxml-which-is-reentrant---to18329452.html
>>
>> Seems to me that Perl (?) is calling functions it is not supposed to call
>> - I'm guessing due to assumptions about mismatching lifecycles. The
>> parsing functions themselves are supposedly reentrant.
>
> Maybe someone can trace the libxml calls ... not sure how exactly ...
> given Alvaro's example, it doesn't seem likely to me that this is due to
> a call to xmlCleanupParser(), but maybe the perl code invokes by simply
> doing "use XML::LibXML;" calls that for some perverse reason.

Something that came to my mind was that maybe the change of memory
management (to make it use palloc) could be confusing libxml somehow.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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