David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:01:58PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I was looking into that and I figured using the \G expression in
>> Perl REs would be useful for this (to find multiple <refname>s).
>> But this was introduced in Perl 5.000, and we claim to support Perl
>> 4 in create_help.pl. I recall that you Tom once arranged this to
>> support building on some old machines. Is this still relevant?
> No.
I concur, there isn't likely to be much demand for building PG >= 8.4
with Perl 4.
regards, tom lane