Quoting Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Gianni Mariani wrote:
> 
> >
> > Before I go deep into this - does anyone have the quick fix for this ?
> >
> > Some facts - the 7.3.4 version of plperl.c has the same errors in the 
> > 7.4 tree.
> > The 7.4 version of plperl.c (with some error handling API calls 
> > commented out) compiles fine in the 7.3.4 tree.
> > (Same machine - same install of perl !)  Points to using some 
> > alternate perl API probably by macro collision ?
> 
> /* Define to 1 to build client libraries as thread-safe code.
>    (--enable-thread-safety) */
> #define USE_THREADS 1
> 
> So this seems to be the collision.
> 
> --enable-thread-safety is a new option for libpq - however this collides 
> with perl's use of the same macro.
> 
> I suspect that the right answer would be to change the name USE_THREADS 
> to PG_USE_THREADS for pg.
> 
> Quick and nasty work around patch:
> 
> --- plperl.c.7.4        Thu Sep  4 08:16:39 2003
> +++ plperl.c    Mon Nov 17 23:07:05 2003
> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
>  #include "catalog/pg_proc.h"
>  #include "catalog/pg_type.h"
>  
> +#undef USE_THREADS
>  /* perl stuff */
>  #include "EXTERN.h"
>  #include "perl.h"
> 
> another fix would be to make plplerl use the explicit api.
> 
> 
> 
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I had this same issue as well but now I'm *slightly* concerned since most of my
code is perl.  How soon would issue be reviewed? (not that I'm NOT going to use
your patch for right now).

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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
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