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Re: PL_stashcache, or, what's our minimum Perl version?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-07-28T12:22:01Z
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On 07/27/2017 11:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I kinda suspect we're not actively testing non-MULTIPLICITY builds
> either.  The 5.8.7 test I just ran was with a non-MULTIPLICITY build,
> so the case doesn't seem actively broken, but I doubt there is any
> buildfarm coverage.  I wonder if it'd be worth getting the buildfarm
> to log the output of "perl -V" so we could get a clearer picture
> of what's being tested.
>
It's quite possible, but in general it will need a new buildfarm client release. If you choose a few possibly critical animals we can ask the owners to apply a fairly simple patch.

cheers

andrew



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Commits

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

  2. Further improve consistency of configure's program searching.

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

  4. Record full paths of programs sought by "configure".

  5. Abandon the use of Perl's Safe.pm to enforce restrictions in plperl, as it is