Re: libxml incompatibility

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: libxml incompatibility
Date: 2009-03-06 19:58:30
Message-ID: 49B18066.50202@dunslane.net
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that if you load libxml into a backend for whatever reason (say
> you create a table with a column of type xml) and then create a plperlu
> function that "use XML::LibXML", we get a segmentation fault.
>
>
>

Yes, I discovered this a few weeks ago. It looks like libxml is not
reentrant, so for perl you need to use some other XML library. Very
annoying.

cheers

andrew

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