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In Perl builds that define PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS, XSUB.h defines macros that replace a whole lot of basic libc functions with Perl functions. We can't tolerate that in plperl.c; it breaks at least PG_TRY and probably other stuff. The core idea of this patch is to include XSUB.h only in the .xs files where it's really needed, and to move any code broken by PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS out of the .xs files and into plperl.c. The reason this hasn't been a problem before is that our build techniques did not result in PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS appearing as a #define in PL/Perl, even on some platforms where Perl thinks it is defined. That's about to change in order to fix a nasty portability issue, so we need this work to make the code safe for that. Rather unaccountably, the Perl people chose XSUB.h as the place to provide the versions of the aTHX/aTHX_ macros that are needed by code that's not explicitly aware of the MULTIPLICITY API conventions. Hence, just removing XSUB.h from plperl.c fails miserably. But we can work around that by defining PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT (which would make the relevant stanza of XSUB.h a no-op anyway). As explained in perlguts.pod, that means we need to add a "dTHX" macro call in every C function that calls a Perl API function. In most of them we just add this at the top; but since the macro fetches the current Perl interpreter pointer, more care is needed in functions that switch the active interpreter. Lack of the macro is easily recognized since it results in bleats about "my_perl" not being defined. (A nice side benefit of this is that it significantly reduces the number of fetches of the current interpreter pointer. On my machine, plperl.so gets more than 10% smaller, and there's probably some performance win too. We could reduce the number of fetches still more by decorating the code with pTHX_/aTHX_ macros to pass the interpreter pointer around, as explained by perlguts.pod; but that's a task for another day.) Formatting note: pgindent seems happy to treat "dTHX;" as a declaration so long as it's the first thing after the left brace, as we'd already observed with respect to the similar macro "dSP;". If you try to put it later in a set of declarations, pgindent puts ugly extra space around it. Having removed XSUB.h from plperl.c, we need only move the support functions for spi_return_next and util_elog (both of which use PG_TRY) out of the .xs files and into plperl.c. This seems sufficient to avoid the known problems caused by PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS, although we could move more code if additional issues emerge. This will need to be back-patched, but first let's see what the buildfarm makes of it. Patch by me, with some help from Ashutosh Sharma Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANFyU97OVQ3+Mzfmt3MhuUm5NwPU=-FtbNH5Eb7nZL9ua8=rcA@mail.gmail.com |
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adminpack | ||
amcheck | ||
auth_delay | ||
auto_explain | ||
bloom | ||
btree_gin | ||
btree_gist | ||
chkpass | ||
citext | ||
cube | ||
dblink | ||
dict_int | ||
dict_xsyn | ||
earthdistance | ||
file_fdw | ||
fuzzystrmatch | ||
hstore | ||
hstore_plperl | ||
hstore_plpython | ||
intagg | ||
intarray | ||
isn | ||
lo | ||
ltree | ||
ltree_plpython | ||
oid2name | ||
pageinspect | ||
passwordcheck | ||
pg_buffercache | ||
pg_freespacemap | ||
pg_prewarm | ||
pg_standby | ||
pg_stat_statements | ||
pg_trgm | ||
pg_visibility | ||
pgcrypto | ||
pgrowlocks | ||
pgstattuple | ||
postgres_fdw | ||
seg | ||
sepgsql | ||
spi | ||
sslinfo | ||
start-scripts | ||
tablefunc | ||
tcn | ||
test_decoding | ||
tsm_system_rows | ||
tsm_system_time | ||
unaccent | ||
uuid-ossp | ||
vacuumlo | ||
xml2 | ||
contrib-global.mk | ||
Makefile | ||
README |
The PostgreSQL contrib tree --------------------------- This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their usefulness. User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML documentation. When building from the source distribution, these modules are not built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected module, do the same in that module's subdirectory. Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database, you can simply do CREATE EXTENSION module_name; See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this procedure.