Re: Refactoring postmaster's code to cleanup after child exit

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Refactoring postmaster's code to cleanup after child exit
Date: 2024-10-07 14:19:53
Message-ID: 6uqzw6tuyxlo5o34u3prvq5qcnz674yr3g34yda5g6ook4vjar@nlbd4r43jgj5
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Hi,

On 2024-10-05 20:51:50 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Socket version 2.028 (included in Perl 5.32) provides pack_sockaddr_un()
> on Windows, so that can be fixed by bumping the Perl version in
> https://github.com/anarazel/pg-vm-images/blob/main/packer/windows.pkr.hcl
> to something more modern (such as 5.40.0.1), and only skipping the test
> if on Windows if Socket is too old.
>
> The decision to use 5.26 seems to come from the initial creation of the
> CI images in 2021 (when 5.34 was current), with the comment «newer
> versions don't currently work correctly for plperl». That claim is
> worth revisiting, and fixing if it's still the case.

I think we fixed the issues that were known at the time. I think I tried
upgrading to something newer at some point and there were some weird, but
fixable, encoding issues. Unfortunately I don't have the bandwidth to tackle
this rn.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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