Re: PL/Perl Does not Like vstrings

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PL/Perl Does not Like vstrings
Date: 2012-01-04 17:08:10
Message-ID: FC77D97F-4F46-4156-B54F-9315363202B2@justatheory.com
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On Jan 4, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Isn't this a Perl bug? It seems to be crashing in SvPVutf8, which
> means that either Perl passed something that's not an SV to a function
> declared to accept SVs, or that SvPVutf8 fails on some SVs. Either
> way, Perl is failing to satisfy the POLA if you ask me.

Possibly, though I know nothing of Perl’s internals. Someone able to come up with a simple test case?

Thanks,

David

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