Re: Testing plperl<->plperlu interaction

Tim Bunce wrote:
> I was investigating a bug in an 8.4.1 production system and distilled a
> test case down to this:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION bar() RETURNS integer AS $$
> #die 'BANG!'; # causes server process to exit(2)
> # alternative - causes server process to exit(255)
> spi_exec_query("invalid sql statement");
> $$ language plperl; -- plperl or plperlu
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS integer AS $$
> spi_exec_query("SELECT * FROM bar()");
> return 1;
> $$ LANGUAGE plperlu; -- must be opposite to language of bar
>
> SELECT * FROM bar(); -- throws exception normally
> SELECT * FROM foo(); -- causes the server to exit abnormaly
>
> before then rereading the 8.4.2 release notes and seeing that the bug
> was already fixed. D'oh!
>
> I see the test suite doesn't have any plperlu tests at all.
> Is there any reason for that?
>
>
>

Just that we haven't bothered. But we can't run tests for both in the
same session because that doesn't work on all platforms. I actually
played a bit with it the other day. Setting up some plperlu tests would
be very simple.

cheers

andrew