On 6/6/15 10:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> With the recently released Perl 5.22.0, the tests fail thus:
>>
>> -ERROR: Global symbol "$global" requires explicit package name at line 3.
>> -Global symbol "$other_global" requires explicit package name at line 4.
>> +ERROR: Global symbol "$global" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $global"?) at line
3.
>> +Global symbol "$other_global" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $other_global"?) at
line4.
>> CONTEXT: compilation of PL/Perl function "uses_global"
>>
>>
>> With PL/Python, this happens for just about every other release, and we usually add another expected file. I don't
seeanything like that for PL/Perl yet. Should we add a new expected file, or is there a different preferred solution?
>
> How many .sql files does this affect? Alternate expected output is
> bothersome; if more than one test file is affected, I think the best is
> to isolate the cases where this appears to a single .sql file, as short
> as possible, so that we don't have to touch it for anything else, and so
> that we don't have to touch the isolated file except for similar
> changes.
It's only one file.