/**********************************************************************
* plperl.c - perl as a procedural language for PostgreSQL
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c,v 1.147 2009/06/04 15:59:55 adunstan Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c,v 1.148 2009/06/05 20:32:00 adunstan Exp $
*
**********************************************************************/
int nargs = 3;
+ char *dummy_perl_env[1] = { NULL };
+
#ifdef WIN32
/*
save_time = loc ? pstrdup(loc) : NULL;
#endif
-
-#ifdef PERL_SYS_INIT3
+ /****
+ * The perl API docs state that PERL_SYS_INIT3 should be called before
+ * allocating interprters. Unfortunately, on some platforms this fails
+ * in the Perl_do_taint() routine, which is called when the platform is
+ * using the system's malloc() instead of perl's own. Other platforms,
+ * notably Windows, fail if PERL_SYS_INIT3 is not called. So we call it
+ * if it's available, unless perl is using the system malloc(), which is
+ * true when MYMALLOC is set.
+ */
+#if defined(PERL_SYS_INIT3) && !defined(MYMALLOC)
/* only call this the first time through, as per perlembed man page */
if (interp_state == INTERP_NONE)
- PERL_SYS_INIT3(&nargs, (char ***) &embedding, NULL);
+ PERL_SYS_INIT3(&nargs, (char ***) &embedding, (char***)&dummy_perl_env);
#endif
plperl_held_interp = perl_alloc();