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Re: minimum perl version

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-09-02T19:03:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2022-09-02 14:31:57 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > I started a query on the buildfarm machine to collect the perl versions, but
> > it's just awfully slow...
>
> This is from March, but it's probably still accurate enough.

Thanks.

Mine did just finish. Over the last month there were the following perl
version on HEAD:

 perl_version |     last_report     |                                                                                                                            array_agg
--------------+---------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 {5,8,3}      | 2022-08-04 09:38:04 | {prairiedog}
 {5,14,2}     | 2022-09-02 16:40:12 | {skate,lapwing,snapper,frogfish}
 {5,16,3}     | 2022-09-02 16:52:17 | {prion,dhole,buri,parula,mantid,chub,clam,snakefly,rhinoceros,quokka}
 {5,18,2}     | 2022-09-02 06:42:13 | {shelduck}
 {5,20,2}     | 2022-09-02 16:15:34 | {curculio,chipmunk,topminnow}
 {5,22,1}     | 2022-09-02 16:02:11 | {spurfowl,cuon,batfish}
 {5,24,1}     | 2022-09-02 17:00:17 | {urocryon,grison,mussurana,butterflyfish,ayu,chimaera,tadarida}
 {5,24,3}     | 2022-09-02 09:04:12 | {fairywren}
 {5,26,1}     | 2022-09-02 18:40:18 | {elasmobranch,avocet,bichir,blossomcrown,trilobite,cavefish,cotinga,demoiselle,perch,hippopotamus,jay}
 {5,26,2}     | 2022-09-02 09:02:03 | {vulpes,wobbegong}
 {5,26,3}     | 2022-09-02 12:04:01 | {jacana}
 {5,28,0}     | 2022-09-02 17:00:17 | {myna}
 {5,28,1}     | 2022-09-02 16:02:01 | {sungazer,hornet,hoverfly,ibisbill,kittiwake,mandrill,tern}
 {5,28,2}     | 2022-09-01 23:39:33 | {bonito}
 {5,30,0}     | 2022-09-02 14:16:16 | {branta,moonjelly,urutau,seawasp}
 {5,30,1}     | 2022-09-02 02:59:06 | {wrasse}
 {5,30,2}     | 2022-09-02 16:05:24 | {massasauga}
 {5,30,3}     | 2022-09-02 17:00:06 | {longfin,sifaka,gombessa}
 {5,32,0}     | 2022-09-02 16:00:05 | {margay}
 {5,32,1}     | 2022-09-02 17:49:36 | {lorikeet,alabio,guaibasaurus,eelpout,tayra,peripatus,plover,gull,mereswine,warbler,morepork,mule,loach,boomslang,florican,copperhead,conchuela}
 {5,34,0}     | 2022-09-02 16:30:04 | {culicidae,komodoensis,grassquit,mamba,francolin,mylodon,olingo,flaviventris,petalura,phycodurus,piculet,pogona,dragonet,devario,desmoxytes,rorqual,serinus,kestrel,crake,skink,chickadee,cardinalfish,tamandua,xenodermus,thorntail,calliphoridae,idiacanthus}
 {5,34,1}     | 2022-09-02 16:05:33 | {sidewinder,malleefowl,pollock}
 {5,36,0}     | 2022-09-02 03:01:08 | {dangomushi,caiman}
(23 rows)

5.14 would be a trivial lift as far as the buildfarm is concerned. The Debian
7 animals couldn't trivially be updated to a newer perl. It's from 2013-05-04,
so I wouldn't feel bad about dropping support for it - but probably wouldn't
personally bother just for this.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. meson: Add 'running' test setup, as a replacement for installcheck

  2. meson: Add support for building with precompiled headers

  3. windows: Adjust FD_SETSIZE via commandline define

  4. meson: docs: Add xml{lint,proc} wrapper to collect dependencies

  5. meson: ecpg: Split definition of static and shared libraries

  6. windows: Set UMDF_USING_NTSTATUS globally, include ntstatus.h

  7. ci: Add hint about downloadable logs to README

  8. meson: Set up absolute rpaths to libdir

  9. meson: Include CFLAGS/c_args in summary and pg_config output

  10. windows: remove date from version number in win32ver.rc

  11. meson: Add initial version of meson based build system

  12. ci: windows: set error mode to not include SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX

  13. Refactor PG_TEST_EXTRA logic in autoconf build

  14. Split TESTDIR into TESTLOGDIR and TESTDATADIR

  15. Don't hardcode tmp_check/ as test directory for tap tests

  16. Extend gendef.pl in preparation for meson

  17. Include c.h instead of postgres.h in src/port/*p{read,write}*.c

  18. Remove DLLTOOL, DLLWRAP from configure / Makefile.global.in

  19. Run xmllint validation only once

  20. Bump minimum Perl version to 5.14

  21. Move gramparse.h to src/backend/parser

  22. Run perltidy over Catalog.pm

  23. Parse catalog .dat files as a whole when compiling the backend

  24. Build all Flex files standalone

  25. Move private declarations shared between guc.c and guc-file.l to new header

  26. Preparatory refactoring for compiling guc-file.c standalone

  27. Move darwin sysroot determination into separate file

  28. Fix MSVC warning in compat_informix/rnull.pgc

  29. solaris: Use versioning scripts instead of -Bsymbolic

  30. Change shared library installation naming on macOS

  31. regress: allow to specify directory containing expected files, for ecpg

  32. Don't add HAVE_LDAP_H HAVE_WINLDAP_H to pg_config.h

  33. Refactor dtrace postprocessing make rules

  34. Add output directory option to gen_node_support.pl

  35. Add output directory argument to generate-unicode_norm_table.pl

  36. Add output file argument to generate-errcodes.pl

  37. Add output path arg in generate-lwlocknames.pl

  38. Move snowball_create.sql creation into perl file

  39. ecpg: Output dir, source dir, stamp file argument for preproc/*.pl

  40. psql: Output dir and dependency generation for sql_help

  41. Deal with paths containing \ and spaces in basebackup_to_shell tests

  42. Remove LLVM_CONFIG from Makefile.global.in

  43. Make update-unicode target work in vpath builds

  44. Refactor DLSUFFIX handling

  45. ldap tests: Add paths for openbsd.

  46. ldap tests: Don't run on unsupported operating systems.

  47. Remove check for accept() argument types

  48. Move our p{read,write}v replacements into their own files.

  49. Adjust yywrap macro for non-reentrant scanners for MSVC.

  50. Remove any -arch switches given in ExtUtils::Embed's ldopts from our

  51. Change PL/Perl and Pg interface build to use configured compiler and

  52. Apparently, on some systems, ExtUtils::Embed and MakeMaker are slightly