Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > Interestingly, although cpan's table says AIX 7.1 shipped with perl > 5.10.1, what's actually on those buildfarm animals is > > tgl@gcc111:[/home/tgl]which perl > /usr/bin/perl > tgl@gcc111:[/home/tgl]ls -l /usr/bin/perl > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 29 Nov 09 2020 /usr/bin/perl -> > /usr/opt/perl5/bin/perl5.28.1 > > Hard to tell if that is a local update or official IBM distribution.
Looks like they update the Perl version in OS updates and service packs: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-perl-updates-and-support-perlrte >> For reference, 6.1 was released on 2007-11-09 and EOL on 2017-04-30, and >> 7.1 was released on 2010-09-10 and is supported until 2023-04-30. > > So 6.1 will be five years out of support by the time we release PG 15. And PG 14 will be supported until nine years after the 6.1 EOL date. > I'm inclined to just update the docs to say we don't support anything > older than 7.1. I concur. - ilmari