On 2015-12-10 09:39:30 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Victor Wagner <vitus@wagner.pp.ru> wrote:
> >> Postgres requires relatively recent Perl. Version objects appeared in
> >> Perl 5.10 and most people would have something newer.
>
> > AFAIK, the minimum requirement for perl is 5.8...
>
> Yeah, that is our stated requirement, and we do have buildfarm members
> checking it on the Unix side (eg prairiedog runs 5.8.6). I don't know
> if anyone is checking the MSVC-build scripts against an old Perl,
> though ... it seems possible that some more-recent constructs have
> crept into that pile of perl code without anyone noticing.
Tom, are you applying the patch, or should I?
