On Jan 5, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > perldoc perlvar says: > > The revision, version, and subversion of the Perl interpreter, > represented as a "version" object. > > This variable first appeared in perl 5.6.0; earlier versions of perl > will see an undefined value. Before perl 5.10.0 $^V was represented > as a v-string. > > I'm quite sure David isn't running on something older than 5.10.0.
Perl 5.14.2: > perl -E 'say ref $^V' version Perl 5.12.4: > perl -E 'say ref $^V' version Perl 5.10.1: > perl -E 'say ref $^V' version Perl 5.8.9: > perl -le 'print ref $^V' Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers