Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] plperl and regexps with accented characters - incompatible?

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>>> Just as a followup, I reported this as a bug and it is being looked
>>> at and discussed:
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>>> http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=47576
>>>
>>> Appears there is no easy resolution yet.
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>> We might be able to do something with the suggested workaround. I
>> will see what I can do, unless you have already tried.
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> OK, I have a fairly ugly manual workaround, that I don't yet
> understand, but seems to work for me.
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> In your session, run the following code before you do anything else:
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> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(text) RETURNS bool LANGUAGE plperl as $$
> return shift =~ /\xa9/i ? 'true' : 'false';
> $$;
> SELECT test('a');
> DROP FUNCTION test(text);
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> After that we seem to be good to go with any old UTF8 chars.
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> I'm looking at automating this so the workaround can be hidden, but
> I'd rather understand it first.
>
> (Core guys: If we can hold RC1 for a bit while I get this fixed that
> would be good.)
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>

The attached patch works for me to eliminate the errors. Please test ASAP.

cheers

andrew