Re: windows cfbot failing: my_perl

On 2022-08-26 Fr 10:47, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-08-26 21:39:05 +0700, John Naylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 9:27 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>>> Because perl, extremely unhelpfully, #defines free. Which, not surprisingly,
>>> causes issues when including system headers referencing free as well.
>>>
>>> I don't really see a good solution to this other than hoisting the
>>> mb/pg_wchar.h include out to before we include all the perl stuff. That does
>>> fix the issue.
>> We could also move is_valid_ascii somewhere else. It's only
>> tangentially related to "wide chars" anyway.
> Given the crazy defines of stuff like free, it seems like a good idea to have
> a rule that no headers should be included after plperl.h with
> PG_NEED_PERL_XSUB_H defined. It's not like there's not other chances of of
> pulling in malloc.h from within pg_wchar.h somehow.
>
> It's a bit ugly to have the mb/pg_wchar.h in plperl.h instead of
> plperl_helpers.h, but ...
>

It's already included directly in plperl.c, so couldn't we just lift it
directly into SPI.xs and Util.xs?

cheers

andrew

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