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Tom Lane 23610daf8a Fix up Perl-to-Postgres datatype conversions in pl/perl.
This patch restores the pre-9.1 behavior that pl/perl functions returning
VOID ignore the result value of their last Perl statement.  9.1.0
unintentionally threw an error if the last statement returned a reference,
as reported by Amit Khandekar.

Also, make sure it works to return a string value for a composite type,
so long as the string meets the type's input format.  We already allowed
the equivalent behavior for arrays, so it seems inconsistent to not allow
it for composites.

In addition, ensure we throw errors for attempts to return arrays or hashes
when the function's declared result type is not an array or composite type,
respectively.  Pre-9.1 versions rather uselessly returned strings like
ARRAY(0x221a9a0) or HASH(0x221aa90), while 9.1.0 threw an error for the
hash case and returned a garbage value for the array case.

Also, clean up assorted grotty coding in Perl array conversion, including
use of a session-lifespan memory context to accumulate the array value
(resulting in session-lifespan memory leak on error), failure to apply the
declared typmod if any, and failure to detect some cases of non-rectangular
multi-dimensional arrays.

Alex Hunsaker and Tom Lane
2011-10-13 18:04:40 -04:00
config Improve detection of Python 3.2 installations 2011-08-18 14:43:16 +03:00
contrib Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
doc Update documentation about ts_rank(). 2011-10-13 14:17:20 -04:00
src Fix up Perl-to-Postgres datatype conversions in pl/perl. 2011-10-13 18:04:40 -04:00
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configure Add missing format attributes 2011-09-10 23:12:46 +03:00
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.