David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
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>> We have not yet fully accepted the notion that you must have Perl to
>> build (and, in fact, I am right now trying to verify that you don't).
>> I don't think that requiring Perl to test is going to fly.
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> I believe that the build farm already requires Perl, regardless of whether the PostgreSQL build itself requires it.
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Unless I am mistaken, Perl is required in any case to build from CVS,
although not from a tarball.
DBI/DBD::pg is quite another issue, however. I have been deliberately
very conservative about what modules to require for the buildfarm, and
we have similarly (and I think wisely) been conservative about what
modules to require for Perl programs in the build process.
Using DBI/DBD::Pg would raise another issue - what version of libpq
would it be using? Not the one in the build being tested, that's for
sure. If you really want to use Perl then either a Pure Perl DBI driver
(which Greg has talked about) or a thin veneer over libpq such as we
used to have in contrib seems a safer way to go.
cheers