Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilm...@ilmari.org> writes: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > >> On 2025-02-12 We 8:58 AM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: >>> >>>> Another question is whether command_fails and command_fails_like is >>>> the only pair or there are more which need stricter checks? >>> If we do this, we should do it across the board for >>> PostgreSQL::Test::Utils and ::Cluster at least. Once we bump the >>> minimum perl version to 5.20 or beyond we should switch to using >>> function signatures (https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub#Signatures), which >>> gives us this checking for free. >> >> Is there any reason we can't move to 5.20? Are there any buildfarm >> animals using such an old version? 5.20 is now almost 10 years old. > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 has Perl 5.16 and is on Extended Lifecycle > Support until 2028-06-30. I don't know how long other distros based on > that (e.g. CentOS, Scientific Linux) are supported, but I can see that > Amazon Linux 2 is almost out of support (2025-06-30).
Ah, I found the thread from when we bumped it from 5.8 to 5.14 in 2022, which has a list of then-current perl versions in the buildfarm: https://postgr.es/m/20220902190329.jxvdeehkbfnrfmtl%40awork3.anarazel.de - ilmari
