Re: Buildfarm animal caiman showing a plperl test issue with newer Perl versions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2024-06-24 Mo 6:46 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>

Done.


cheers


andrew

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