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Re: plperl: update ppport.h and fix configure version check

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2021-10-05T14:17:46Z
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On 10/4/21 11:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> In short: (a) we're not testing against anything older than 5.8.3
> and (b) it seems quite unlikely that anybody cares about 5.8.x anyway.
> So if we want to mess with this, maybe we should set the cutoff
> to 5.8.3 not 5.8.1.
>
> 	


Seems OK. Note that the Msys DTK perl currawong uses to build with is
ancient (5.6.1). That's going to stay as it is until it goes completely
out of scope in about 13 months. The perl it builds plperl against is
much more modern - 5.16.3.


cheers


andrew

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Commits

  1. plperl: update ppport.h to Perl 5.34.0.

  2. Doc: update our claims about the minimum recommended AIX version.

  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.