Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.
Date: 2021-10-07 21:01:46
Message-ID: 177265.1633640506@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> On 2021-Oct-07, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So this isn't looking promising :-(

> Looking in the archives, apparently people use
> perl -MModule::CoreList
> but I see that that module, at least in Debian, is distributed even less
> widely than corelist(1) itself, because it's a separate package -- even
> though it seems to be part of Perl's core. Also, the module's interface
> appears less helpful than `corelist -a`.

Hmm. I do see that Module::CoreList knows not only which modules
are in core but when they were brought in, so that does seem like
a really valuable reference to know about. Let's just say something
like "You can consult Module::CoreList to find out whether and for
long a module has been present in the Perl core."

regards, tom lane

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