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

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2021-10-05T07:41:08Z
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> On 5 Oct 2021, at 05:12, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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.

Not being able to test against older versions in the builfarm seems like a
pretty compelling reason to set 5.8.3 as the required version.

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

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.