2009/12/21 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> wrote: >> FYI Perl 5.6.0 was released in March 2000. 5.6.2 in November 2003. > > Gosh, I feel old. I started on Perl 4.036. > >>> What is worth a little bit of effort to establish is exactly what >>> version of Perl we're already depending on, so that we can document >>> that for the benefit of future tool writers. There's no reason why >>> this particular thing needs to be compatible further back than what is >>> already required otherwise. >> >> I'd like to know the earliest version of perl that's supported for >> PL/Perl, if that's ever been determined (I've not seen it in the docs). >> >> plperl requires Safe v2.09, released in Oct 2003 and included in 5.8.1. >> That version, and later versions, have only been tested back to perl 5.6. >> >> I'd recommend Perl 5.6(.2) as a minimum for threads/multiplicity. >> Perl 5.5 had complelely different, and unsafe, code for threads >> and no concept of multiplicity. >> >> I'd recommend Perl 5.8(.1) as a minimum for UTF-8 databases. >> Perl 5.7 had a complelely different, and flawed, concept of >> Unicode operation. >> >> Tim. >> >> p.s. I'll test PL/Perl with perl 5.6.2 (assuming I can still build it on >> my system) as part of testing the PL/Perl patches I'm working on. > > It's possible that we might support building the release in general > with an older version of Perl than what we support for PL/perl, but it > sounds like we may have already burned this bridge if the MSVC stuff > expects something newer. Maybe we should just document that 5.6 is
The MSVC stuff is only tested on 5.8. > the minimum supported version to build from source and be done with it > (we should clarify what MSVC requires). If someone is running a 1990s You mean somehting like http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/install-win32-full.html#AEN23266 -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
