Re: Buildfarm animal caiman showing a plperl test issue with newer Perl versions

On 2024-06-24 Mo 12:00 AM, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
> Hello hackers,
>
> As recent caiman failures ([1], [2], ...) show, plperl.sql is
> incompatible
> with Perl 5.40. (The last successful test runs took place when cayman
> had Perl 5.38.2 installed: [3].)
>
> FWIW, I've found an already-existing fix for the issue [4] and a note
> describing the change for Perl 5.39.10 [5].
>
> [1]
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=caiman&dt=2024-06-24%2001%3A34%3A23
> [2]
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=caiman&dt=2024-06-24%2000%3A15%3A16
> [3]
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=caiman&dt=2024-05-02%2021%3A57%3A17
> [4]
> https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community/postgresql14/fix-test-plperl-5.8-pragma.patch?id=28aeb872811f59a7f646aa29ed7c9dc30e698e65
> [5]
> https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/perl-5.39.10/changes#Selected-Bug-Fixes
>
>

It's a very odd bug. I guess we should just backpatch the removal of
that redundant version check in plc_perlboot.pl, probably all the way
down to 9.2 since godwit builds and tests with plperl that far back, and
some day in the not too distant future it will upgrade to perl 5.40.

cheers

andrew

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