Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 10/9/21 10:25 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
>> You mentioned prairiedog uses IPC::Run 0.79.  That's from 2005.  (Perl 5.8.3
>> is from 2004, and Test::More 0.87 is from 2009.)  I'd just use 0.79 in the
>> README recipe.  IPC::Run is easy to upgrade, so if we find cause to rely on a
>> newer version, I'd be fine updating that requirement.

> Why don't we specify the minimum versions required of these somewhere in
> the perl code? Perl is pretty good at this.

configure already checks Test::More's version.  I proposed downthread
that it should also check IPC::Run, but didn't pull that trigger yet.

            regards, tom lane