Raising the Pl/Perl required version

Started by Greg Sabino Mullanealmost 20 years ago3 messages
#1Greg Sabino Mullane
greg@turnstep.com

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This was raised before, but I can't find the exact thread. I'd
like to re-open the idea of boosting the minimum Perl version
for PL/Perl to 5.6. My primary motivation is to provide use
of "our" for the %TD hash, as mentioned before (cannot find the
email right now). Being as 5.6 was released nearly six years
ago, in March of 2000, I'm hoping that this won't meet too many
objections.

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#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Greg Sabino Mullane (#1)
Re: Raising the Pl/Perl required version

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

This was raised before, but I can't find the exact thread. I'd
like to re-open the idea of boosting the minimum Perl version
for PL/Perl to 5.6.

I don't think this is unreasonable.

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#3Andrew Dunstan
andrew@dunslane.net
In reply to: Greg Sabino Mullane (#1)
Re: Raising the Pl/Perl required version

See here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg00438.php

I don't mind requiring 5.6, but I do want to think carefully about the
implications of changing the declaration of $_TD from "my" to "our",
especially if multiple triggers fire. Is there a danger we might clobber
one?

cheers

andrew

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

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This was raised before, but I can't find the exact thread. I'd
like to re-open the idea of boosting the minimum Perl version
for PL/Perl to 5.6. My primary motivation is to provide use
of "our" for the %TD hash, as mentioned before (cannot find the
email right now). Being as 5.6 was released nearly six years
ago, in March of 2000, I'm hoping that this won't meet too many
objections.