On Tuesday 23 June 2009 06:43:29 Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Actually, further investigation discloses that someone broke the no-Perl > >> defense in psql's makefile back in 8.0, and we hadn't noticed till now. > > > > Don't we ship sql_help.h in the tarball? I thought that's all the perl > > was used for in psql. > > Yeah, but the makefile protected that with "ifdef PERL", which stopped > failing as intended when someone forced some quotes into the value of > PERL. I'm about to commit something that hopefully will be a bit more > robust.
So one would have only seen the difference if there was a timestamp skew in the unpacked tarball, or indeed perl was indeed missing. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
