Re: Refactoring postmaster's code to cleanup after child exit

Hi,

On 2024-10-05 20:51:50 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Socket version 2.028 (included in Perl 5.32) provides pack_sockaddr_un()
> on Windows, so that can be fixed by bumping the Perl version in
> https://github.com/anarazel/pg-vm-images/blob/main/packer/windows.pkr.hcl
> to something more modern (such as 5.40.0.1), and only skipping the test
> if on Windows if Socket is too old.
> 
> The decision to use 5.26 seems to come from the initial creation of the
> CI images in 2021 (when 5.34 was current), with the comment «newer
> versions don't currently work correctly for plperl».  That claim is
> worth revisiting, and fixing if it's still the case.

I think we fixed the issues that were known at the time. I think I tried
upgrading to something newer at some point and there were some weird, but
fixable, encoding issues. Unfortunately I don't have the bandwidth to tackle
this rn.

Greetings,

Andres Freund