Re: It's June 1; do you know where your release is?

Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> Update: the problem is apparently occurring during the call to perl_parse()
>> in plperl_init_interp().
>>
>>
>
> Not sure if you saw the previous thread on this, but here's a
> backtrace that gives some more detail:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-05/msg00198.php
>

Well, that's not too easy to read, but anyway, I got to the bottom of
it. Turns out there's a change in the Perl embedding API that nobody
noticed. The attached patch worked for me on Windows. We'll need
something like this on other platforms I believe. I see via Google that
Debian is objecting to packages that call perl_parse without calling
PERL_SYS_INIT (or PERL_SYS_INIT3). I'm even wondering if we should
backpatch it.

Of course, that leaves the issue of the library name to be fixed, but
sufficient unto the day ...

cheers

andrew