Re: plperl vs LC_COLLATE (was Re: Possible savepoint bug)

Tom Lane said:
> I wrote:
>> So the mere act of defining a plperl function, even with
>> check_function_bodies = false, is sufficient to send control through
>> that bit of libperl code that does setlocale(LC_ALL, ""). Ugh.
>> This is much worse than I thought.
>
> It seems one ingredient in this is that the plperl function validator
> fails to honor check_function_bodies, and hence is calling libperl
> anyway. I wonder if that explains the sudden rise in incidents in 8.1?
>

That's probably because I was unaware of its existence.

It should certainly be fixed, but surely at best this would only delay
seeing the ugly locale effect - as soon as you call a perl function you'll
be back in the same boat regardless.

cheers

andrew