| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: compile errors in new PL/Pler |
| Date: | 2004-07-02 05:33:36 |
| Message-ID: | 40E4F3B0.1050803@joeconway.com |
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>>
>>> I am going to bet dollars to donuts that it is your perl version.
>>> Perl 5.00503 is ancient. Try upgrading to at least 5.6.
>>
>> Not much I can do about that - it's builtin as part of FreeBSD 4.x
>> series.
>
> And I bet its still the 'standard' for alot of ppl out there running it
> ... its only within the past couple of months that we've even upgraded
> mail.postgresql.org to it, and only because I wanted to see if it would
> improve majordomo's performance (which it didn't) ...
So we have three choices as I see it:
1) revert the change
2) require some minimally recent version of perl
3) fix the issue in place
Preferences?
Joshua/Andrew -- do you want to take a shot at making this work on perl
5.00503?
Joe
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