| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: TAP / recovery-test fs-level backups, psql enhancements etc |
| Date: | 2016-03-02 04:33:23 |
| Message-ID: | 6481.1456893203@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> This upset buildfarm members running prehistoric Perl versions because
> is_passing was added after 5.8.8.
Sir, RHEL6 is not prehistoric ... and this is failing on my server too.
I'm not sure when "is_passing" was added, but it was later than 5.10.1.
> Fix attached.
Will check and apply.
> I think I'm going to have to do an archaeology-grade Perl install, there's
> just too much to keep an eye on manually. Ugh.
> Why do we requite a 10yo Perl anyway?
The point of running ancient versions in the buildfarm is so that we
don't move the goalposts on software compatibility without knowing it.
When we come across a good reason to desupport an old Perl or Tcl or
whatever version, we'll do it; but having to add another ten lines or
so of code doesn't seem like a good reason.
regards, tom lane
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