Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-13 Thread John Naylor
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:46 AM Tom Lane wrote: > > John Naylor writes: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 6:47 AM Tom Lane wrote: > >> I've just switched longfin to use built-from-source perl 5.14.0. > > > In that case, here is a quick update with commit message. Not yet any > > change for MSVC, but

Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
John Naylor writes: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 6:47 AM Tom Lane wrote: >> I've just switched longfin to use built-from-source perl 5.14.0. > In that case, here is a quick update with commit message. Not yet any > change for MSVC, but I can put together something later. Looks reasonable just by

Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-13 Thread John Naylor
:00:00 2001 From: John Naylor Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:58:13 +0700 Subject: [PATCH v2] Bump minimum Perl version to 5.14 The oldest vendor-shipped Perl in the buildfarm is 5.14.2, which is the last version that Debian Wheezy shipped. That OS is EOL, but we keep it running because there is no

Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
John Naylor writes: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 2:11 AM Tom Lane wrote: >> Yeah, that seems like a reasonable new minimum for Perl. I might >> see about setting up an animal running 5.14.0, just so we can say >> "5.14" in the docs without fine print. > Until such time as that happens, here is a

Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-13 Thread John Naylor
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 5:53 PM John Naylor wrote: > > Until such time as that happens, here is a draft to require 5.14.2. As soon as I hit send, it occurred to me that we don't check the perl version on Windows, since (I seem to recall) 5.8.3 was too old to be an option on that platform. We'll

Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-13 Thread John Naylor
On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 2:11 AM Tom Lane wrote: > > Andres Freund writes: > > 5.14 would be a trivial lift as far as the buildfarm is concerned. > > Yeah, that seems like a reasonable new minimum for Perl. I might > see about setting up an animal running 5.14.0, just so we can say > "5.14" in

Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-02 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 2 Sep 2022, at 21:11, Tom Lane wrote: > > Andres Freund writes: >> 5.14 would be a trivial lift as far as the buildfarm is concerned. > > Yeah, that seems like a reasonable new minimum for Perl. I might > see about setting up an animal running 5.14.0, just so we can say > "5.14" in the

Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > 5.14 would be a trivial lift as far as the buildfarm is concerned. Yeah, that seems like a reasonable new minimum for Perl. I might see about setting up an animal running 5.14.0, just so we can say "5.14" in the docs without fine print. regards,

Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-02 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2022-09-02 14:31:57 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: > > I started a query on the buildfarm machine to collect the perl versions, but > > it's just awfully slow... > > This is from March, but it's probably still accurate enough. Thanks. Mine did just finish. Over the last

Re: minimum perl version

2022-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > I started a query on the buildfarm machine to collect the perl versions, but > it's just awfully slow... This is from March, but it's probably still accurate enough. regards, tom lane sysname| snapshot | l

minimum perl version

2022-09-02 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, Split off from the meson thread at https://postgr.es/m/990067.1662138678%40sss.pgh.pa.us On 2022-09-02 13:11:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: > > On 2022-09-02 14:17:26 +0700, John Naylor wrote: > >> + # FIXME: -output option is only available in perl 5.9.3 - but that's >