Janning Vygen <vygen@xxxxxx> writes: >> Hmm ... the one part of that that jumps out at me is plperl. We already >> know that plperl can screw up the locale settings; I wonder whether >> there are other bugs. Anyway, if you are using plperl I *strongly* >> recommend updating to the latest PG release ASAP (8.0.6 in your case). > ok, shouldn't i upgrade to 8.1 instead of 8.0.6 if i can? Up to you --- you have more risk of compatibility issues if you do that, whereas within-branch updates are supposed to be painless. Depends whether you have the time right now to deal with testing your applications against 8.1. regards, tom lane