Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 2023-04-07 Fr 21:52, Tom Lane wrote:
>> pipit appears to be running a reasonably current system (RHEL8), so
>> the claim that "open" is a Perl core module appears false. We need
>> to rewrite this to not use that.
> I think it is a core module (See <https://metacpan.org/pod/open>) but it
> appears that some packagers have separated it out for reasons that
> aren't entirely obvious:
Hmm, yeah: on my RHEL8 workstation
$ rpm -qf /usr/share/perl5/open.pm
perl-open-1.11-421.el8.noarch
It's not exactly clear how that came to be installed, because
$ rpm -q perl-open --whatrequires
no package requires perl-open
and indeed another nearby RHEL8 machine doesn't have that package
installed at all, even though I've got it loaded up with enough
stuff for most Postgres work. (Sadly, I'd not tested on that one.)
Anyway, I assume this is just syntactic sugar for something
we can do another way? If it's at all fundamental, I'll have
to back the patch out.
regards, tom lane