On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 01:36:11AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Dilger <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Mar 12, 2021, at 10:22 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Coping with both endiannesses might be painful.
>
> > Not too bad if the bigint value is zero, as both the low and high 32bits
> > will be zero, regardless of endianness. The question is whether that gives
> > up too much in terms of what the test is trying to do. I'm not sure that
> > it does, but if you'd rather solve this by upgrading perl, that's ok by me.
>
> I don't mind updating the perl installations on prairiedog and gaur,
> but Noah might have some difficulty with his AIX flotilla, as I believe
> he's not sysadmin there.
The AIX animals have Perl v5.28.1. hoverfly, in particular, got a big update
package less than a month ago. Hence, I doubt it's a question of applying
routine updates. The puzzle would be to either (a) compile a 32-bit Perl that
handles unpack('q') or (b) try a PostgreSQL configuration like "./configure
... PROVE='perl64 /usr/bin/prove --'" to run the TAP suites under perl64.
(For hoverfly, it's enough to run "prove" under $PERL. mandrill, however,
needs a 32-bit $PERL for plperl, regardless of what it needs for "prove".)
Future AIX packagers would face doing the same.
With v5-0001-pg_amcheck-continuing-to-fix-portability-problems.patch being so
self-contained, something like it is the way to go.
