If the method is called in scalar context and we didn't pass in a stderr handle, one won't be created. However, some error paths assume that it exists, so in this case create a dummy stderr to avoid the resulting perl error. Per gripe from Oleg Tselebrovskiy <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru> and adapted from his patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/378eac5de4b8ecb5be7bcdf2db9d2c4d@postgrespro.ru
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.
Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.
General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.