Re: New PL/Perl failure with Safe 2.2x due to recursion (8.x & 9.0)

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New PL/Perl failure with Safe 2.2x due to recursion (8.x & 9.0)
Date: 2010-02-25 18:05:03
Message-ID: 793249CF-DED6-440A-9771-C50554EE3CBB@kineticode.com
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On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:

>> That's two unacceptable alternatives, you need to find a third one.
>> I think most people will have no trouble settling on "do not update
>> to Safe 2.2x" if you don't offer a better solution than these.
>
> I believe the next version of Safe will revert to Safe 1.19 behaviour
> because the side effects of the change in 2.20 are too severe for it to
> be left enabled by default.

Which means losing sort $a <=> $b again, alas. Such was always the case in the past, so that might be an okay tradeoff to get recursive calls working again, but I certainly hope that Safe can be updated in the near future to give us both.

There seem to be no good answers here.

David

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