On 3/31/22 12:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> There are three ways out of this that I can see:
>> . carry a copy of parent.pm in src/test/perl (It's very small)
>> . use the older and heavier 'base' module which goes back to 5.004, and
>> does much the same thing (and a lot more)
>> . just do directly what parent.pm's import() does, as in the attached,
>> which I have tested down to version 10.
>> On the whole I think I prefer the last.
> I like #3 too, given that it's such a small patch. I've verified
> that it allows regression tests to run on perl 5.8.8, which is the
> oldest I have handy other than prairiedog's 5.8.3 (but that machine
> is tied up and I don't feel like trying to test this concurrently
> with a buildfarm run).
>
>
I think it's safe enough. Pushed.
cheers
andrew
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