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Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-10-07T18:33:22Z
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> On 7 Oct 2021, at 20:26, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Previously it only checked for version >= 5.8.0, although the
> documentation has said that the minimum version is 5.8.3 since
> commit dea6ba939.

src/test/perl/README still claims "5.8.0 and newer", not sure how important
that is to fix but it seems a bit inconsistent now.

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Commits

  1. Make configure check for minimum required version of IPC::Run.

  2. Doc: update testing recipe in src/test/perl/README.

  3. Update test/perl/README to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3, too.

  4. Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.

  5. Doc: specify that the minimum supported version of Perl is 5.8.3.