Re: [GENERAL] plperl and regexps with accented characters - incompatible?

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

I wrote:
> > OK, I have a fairly ugly manual workaround, that I don't yet 
> > understand, but seems to work for me.
> >
> > In your session, run the following code before you do anything else:
> >
> > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(text) RETURNS bool LANGUAGE plperl as $$
> > return shift =~ /\xa9/i ? 'true' : 'false';
> > $$;
> > SELECT test('a');
> > DROP FUNCTION test(text);
> >
> > After that we seem to be good to go with any old UTF8 chars.
> >
> > I'm looking at automating this so the workaround can be hidden, but 
> > I'd rather understand it first.
> >
> > (Core guys: If we can hold RC1 for a bit while I get this fixed that 
> > would be good.)
>
> The attached patch works for me to eliminate the errors. Please test 
> ASAP.

Given our time constraints I intend to apply this to HEAD and backpatch 
it to 8.2 and 8.1, unless there's a strenuous objection. That will give 
us some buildfarm coverage on it, although we don't seem to have any 
perl 5.6.x on the buildfarm that I could see. We've had a positive test 
report, no negative reports, and I'm fairly sure the patch is at worst 
harmless.


cheers

andrew