Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> 2009/12/21 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> plperl requires Safe v2.09, released in Oct 2003 and included in 5.8.1.
>>> That version, and later versions, have only been tested back to perl 5.6.
>>> I'd recommend Perl 5.8(.1) as a minimum for UTF-8 databases.
>>> Perl 5.7 had a complelely different, and flawed, concept of
>>> Unicode operation.
> The MSVC stuff is only tested on 5.8.
Given the above three things it seems like we could define 5.8.1 as the
minimum required version.
regards, tom lane