Detect if flags are needed for C++11 support

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Commit: ae4fe737aea36eb3a20e567c75cd70a82d1af230
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2026-01-22T08:09:25Z
Detect if flags are needed for C++11 support

Just like we only support compiling with C11, we only support
compiling extensions with C++11 and up.  Some compilers support C++11
but don't enable it by default.  This detects if flags are needed to
enable C++11 support, in a similar way to how we check the same for
C11 support.

The C++ test extension module added by commit 476b35d4e31 confirmed
that C++11 is effectively required.  (This was understood in mailing
list discussions but not recorded anywhere in the source code.)

Author: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E1viDt1-001d7E-2I%40gemulon.postgresql.org

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