Re: Perl 5.18 breaks pl/perl regression tests?

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Can anyone else replicate this change of behavior?
>
Yes. I could reproduce that on an Archlinux box after updating to perl
1.8.0. hamster might also fail with the same error, I just updated its perl
from 1.6.3 to 1.8.0.

> Is there anything about it in the Perl release notes?
>
Just by having a look at the release notes of Perl, there are still nothing
describing changes between 1.6.3 and 1.8.0:
http://perldoc.perl.org/index-history.html

It looks quite a bit like somebody's fixed a line-counting bug inside
> Perl, which may mean that we'll have to maintain two expected-output
> files or else remove these particular test cases. Which would be
> annoying.
>
+1 for adding some new expected output files.
--
Michael