Re: pl/perl extension fails on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:34:56PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't really have an opinion about the relative merits of these changes,
>> but why do anything?  The existing solution has the buildfarm happy, and
>> we've not heard any field complaints that I saw.  I'm not sure we should
>> spend more time on supporting obsolete toolchain combinations that aren't
>> represented in the buildfarm.

> It's the other way around.  The buildfarm's 32-bit MSVC animals each use an
> obsolete Perl.  PostgreSQL is incompatible with today's 32-bit ActivePerl and
> Strawberry Perl.

Oh, OK.  In that case, we need to get some representatives of these
more modern builds into the buildfarm while we're at it.
        regards, tom lane