Bug #45610 for DBD-mysql: DBI->data_sources() segfault with DBD::mysql

Hello, A program I maintain tries to find the databases available in a MySQL server. When using the DBI->data_sources() method, the program segfaults. The attached program is a example for Debian systems. When run on a Debian etch system, it generates the following output: # ./mysql_listdb using DBI v1.53, DBD::mysql v3.0008 reading credentials from /etc/mysql/debian.cnf.. trying with user 'debian-sys-maint'.. - fetching list of database with MySQL 'SHOW' command => found 4 databases: information_schema mysql spp spp_unit - fetching list of database with DBD::mysql ListDBs() function => found 4 databases: information_schema mysql spp spp_unit - fetching available data sources with DBI data_sources() function Segmentation fault # echo $? 139 Given the first two methods works, the problem doesn't seem to lies in DBD::mysql, but to be honest, looking at the source of both DBI and DBD::mysql, I don't understand how these methods can segfault. Summary of the software: - Debian etch / Linux 2.6.18-12-xen-amd64 - Perl v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi - DBI v1.53 - DBD::mysql v3.0008 - MySQL v5.1.27 Trying with DBI v1.607 doesn't fix the problem: DBI-1.607# perl -Mblib ../mysql_listdb using DBI v1.607, DBD::mysql v3.0008 reading credentials from /etc/mysql/debian.cnf.. trying with user 'debian-sys-maint'.. - fetching list of database with MySQL 'SHOW' command => found 4 databases: information_schema mysql spp spp_unit - fetching list of database with DBD::mysql ListDBs() function => found 4 databases: information_schema mysql spp spp_unit - fetching available data sources with DBI data_sources() function Segmentation fault However, trying with DBD::mysql v4.011 solves the problem: DBD-mysql-4.011# perl -Mblib ../mysql_listdb using DBI v1.53, DBD::mysql v4.011 reading credentials from /etc/mysql/debian.cnf.. trying with user 'debian-sys-maint'.. - fetching list of database with MySQL 'SHOW' command => found 4 databases: information_schema mysql spp spp_unit - fetching list of database with DBD::mysql ListDBs() function => found 4 databases: information_schema mysql spp spp_unit - fetching available data sources with DBI data_sources() function => found 4 sources Of course, you can't fix an old version, but maybe it's a documentation bug, given nothing is mentionned in the changelog about a data_source() bugfix. -- Close the world, txEn eht nepO.