| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Minimum perl version supported |
| Date: | 2009-12-21 15:09:58 |
| Message-ID: | 14813.1261408198@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> 2009/12/21 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com> wrote:
>>> 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 5.8(.1) as a minimum for UTF-8 databases.
>>> Perl 5.7 had a complelely different, and flawed, concept of
>>> Unicode operation.
> The MSVC stuff is only tested on 5.8.
Given the above three things it seems like we could define 5.8.1 as the
minimum required version.
regards, tom lane
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