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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: 2021-10-07T21:48:45Z
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2021-Oct-07, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm.  I do see that Module::CoreList knows not only which modules
>> are in core but when they were brought in, so that does seem like
>> a really valuable reference to know about.  Let's just say something
>> like "You can consult Module::CoreList to find out whether and for
>> long a module has been present in the Perl core."

> WFM.

Concretely, then, I propose the attached.

			regards, tom lane

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.