Re: plperlu stored procedure seems to freeze for a minute

Peter J. Holzer wrote:

> Two messages from the same line of the same plperlu stored procedure, 68
> seconds apart. So what is this line 36?
>
>     confess "impossible result '$success' (payload=$payload)";
>
> What? The first message clearly comes from interpolating $success
> (which is undef at that point) into the argument. The second from
> confess itself. What could cause a plperlu procedure to freeze for 68
> seconds between the call to confess and its output?

Try running it under strace.  Maybe it's trying to resolve some name and
its resolver takes a minute to discover it can't, or something like that.

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