| From: | Gilles DAROLD <gilles(at)darold(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, mhh(at)mindspring(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal for new PL/Perl README |
| Date: | 2000-09-20 17:45:16 |
| Message-ID: | 39C8F7AB.DC39AE09@darold.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gilles DAROLD <gilles(at)darold(dot)net> writes:
> > I also proposed to removed the POLLUTE option by applying the
> > following patch to the plperl.c file. It compile well on Perl 5.005_03
> > and Perl 5.6.0.
>
> ... and will fail entirely on older Perls, before 5.004-something where
> they changed the API. The POLLUTE hack is at least backwards-compatible.
>
> What we really need to do is revise plperl and interfaces/perl5 to use
> Devel::PPPort, which masks the API change; but no one's got round to it.
>
> regards, tom lane
I think this is a waste of time, Perl older versions are not as well as
newer (up to
5.004 which have some leak of memory) and upgrading Perl will assume the
backwards
compatibility as I know, at least it's one of its goal...
Regards,
Gilles
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