On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:01:58PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I was looking into that and I figured using the \G expression in
> >> Perl REs would be useful for this (to find multiple <refname>s).
> >> But this was introduced in Perl 5.000, and we claim to support Perl
> >> 4 in create_help.pl. I recall that you Tom once arranged this to
> >> support building on some old machines. Is this still relevant?
>
> > No.
>
> I concur, there isn't likely to be much demand for building PG >= 8.4
> with Perl 4.
+1
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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