On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 01:45:45PM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > One of the things on my to-do list for today is to make configure reject
> > Perl versions less than $TBD. I thought we had agreed a week or so back
> > that 5.8 was the lowest safe version because of utf8 and other
> > considerations.
>
> +1, and 5.8.3 at a minimum for utf8 stuff, 5.8.8 much much better.
I think we said 5.8.1 at the time, but 5.8.3 sounds good to me.
There would be _very_ few places using < 5.8.6.
Tim.
