Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>> + * Fill in just enough information to set up this perl
>> + * function in the safe container and call it.
>> + * For some reason not entirely clear, it prevents errors that
>> + * can arise from the regex code later trying to load
>> + * utf8 modules.
>>
>
> How many versions of Perl have you tried this against?
>
>
>
Only one :-( I don't have a farm of perl versions hanging round. That's
one of the reasons I asked that people test it.
The version I tested against is 5.8.8 - the latest stable release. The
5.8 series started in 2003 from what I can see - if anyone has a
sufficiently old system that they can test on 5.6.2 that will be useful.
I spent an hour wrestling unsuccessfully with it this morning but I
don't have more time to spend on it. Systems older than 5.6 don't
matter, as we don't do any UTF8 mangling on those.
cheers
andrew