On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coe...@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:05 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Uh-huh.  So the issue is indeed that they're injecting PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
>>> via a command-line #define rather than putting it into perl's config.h,
>>> and that results in a change in the apparent size of the PerlInterp
>>> struct (because of IMem and friends).
>
>> Yes, That's right. We would have seen different result if the
>> PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS would not have been defined globally.
>
> I've pushed the changes to the build scripts now.  I had to revise the
> Mkvcbuild.pm part a bit, because you'd forgotten to propagate the extra
> defines into hstore_plperl.

Thanks for that.

So that code is untested; please confirm
> that HEAD works in your problem environment now.
>

I quickly ran the some basic test-cases on my Windows machine (machine
where i have been regenerating the issue) and they are all passing.
Also, all the automated test-cases for contrib module hstore_plperl
are passing.

> I notice that Mkvcbuild.pm is artificially injecting a define for
> PLPERL_HAVE_UID_GID.  I strongly suspect that that was a hack meant
> to work around the lack of this mechanism, and that we could now
> get rid of it or clean it up.  But there's no evidence in the commit
> log about the reason for it --- it seems to go back to the original
> addition of MSVC support.  Anybody remember?
>
>                         regards, tom lane


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