Re: libxml incompatibility - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kenneth Marshall
Subject Re: libxml incompatibility
Date
Msg-id 20090306203225.GC13289@it.is.rice.edu
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In response to Re: libxml incompatibility  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that if you load libxml into a backend for whatever reason (say
>> you create a table with a column of type xml) and then create a plperlu
>> function that "use XML::LibXML", we get a segmentation fault.
>>
>>
>>   
>
> Yes, I discovered this a few weeks ago. It looks like libxml is not 
> reentrant, so for perl you need to use some other XML library. Very 
> annoying.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
Ugh! That is worse than a simple library link incompatibility.

Ken


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