On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:09:58AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> > 2009/12/21 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>:
> >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >>> plperl requires Safe v2.09, released in Oct 2003 and included in 5.8.1.
> >>> That version, and later versions, have only been tested back to perl 5.6.
> 
> >>> I'd recommend Perl 5.8(.1) as a minimum for UTF-8 databases.
> >>> Perl 5.7 had a complelely different, and flawed, concept of
> >>> Unicode operation.
> 
> > The MSVC stuff is only tested on 5.8.
> 
> Given the above three things it seems like we could define 5.8.1 as the
> minimum required version.

I'd be delighted with that.

Tim.

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