Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]

On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Excerpts from Alex Hunsaker's message of mié ene 12 16:22:55 -0300 2011:
> 
>> [ Id actually vote for _not_ having a compatibility option at all, we
>> change more major things than this IMHO every major release. (And even
>> then some major things in minor releases, for example the removal of
>> Safe.pm) ]
> 
> I think the main question here is: how loudly is existing code going to
> break?  If the breakage is silent, it's going to be very problematic.
> If functions fail to run at all, then we can live without the
> compatibility option.

Not really loud. Perl won't even complain when you try to interpret a
reference as a string.

Since almost everyone votes for making the new behavior a default option I'm
inclined to do that change, although I'm against throwing out the
compatibility option. There are many other reasons except for PL/Perl for
people to upgrade to 9.1, let's not force them to rewrite their Perl code
if they were not planning to do that.

/A

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Alexey Klyukin
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