Testing SvTYPE() directly is more fraught with problems than one might
think, because depending on context Perl might be storing a scalar value
in one of several forms, eg both numeric and string values. This resulted
in Perl-version-dependent buildfarm test failures. Instead use the SvTYPE
test only to distinguish non-scalar cases (AV, HV, NULL). Disambiguate
scalars by testing SvIOK, SvNOK, then SvPOK. This creates a preference
order for how we will resolve cases where the value is available in more
than one form, which seems fine to me.
Furthermore, because we're now dealing directly with a "double" value
in the SvNOK case, we can get rid of an inadequate and unportable
string-comparison test for infinities, and use isinf() instead.
(We do need some additional #include and "-lm" infrastructure to use
that in a contrib module, per prior experiences.)
In passing, prevent the regression test results from depending on DROP
CASCADE order; I've not seen that malfunction, but it's trouble waiting
to happen.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1f3MMJ-0006bf-B0@gemulon.postgresql.org
Some compilers are evidently pickier than others about whether Perl's
I32 typedef should be considered equivalent to int. Dodge the problem
by using a separate variable; the prior coding was a bit confusing anyway.
Per buildfarm. Note this does nothing to fix the test failures due to
SV_to_JsonbValue not covering enough variable types.
Add a new contrib module jsonb_plperl that provides a transform between
jsonb and PL/Perl. jsonb values are converted to appropriate Perl types
such as arrays and hashes, and vice versa.
Author: Anthony Bykov <a.bykov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut