Re: Which perl works with pg9.1

Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 7/09/2011 3:00 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > pasman pasma?ski wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >> I have installed activeperl 5.10. It works with pg8.4, but not with
> >> 9.1rc1 (win32 installer).
> >> Do this version need perl 5.12?
> > Odd, the source code only requires Perl 5.8.   Not sure why win32 would
> > need a later version.
>
> The win32 packages require whatever version of Perl they were built
> against, AFAIK. Perl DLLs are only binary compatible within a major
> version, and I think the DLL naming changes too.
>
> I thought the required version of Perl was mentioned by the installer or
> post-install notes somewhere, but can't immediately find the info.

Oh, yes, that is right and isn't tested very well at runtime, as far as
I remember.

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