From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: davidgilman1@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: BUG #18816: pg16 requires perl 5.14+ but is not documented
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PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> The PostgreSQL 16 branch's configure script checks to see if perl 5.14+ is
> installed (see config/perl.m4) but there is no comment in the documentation
> that perl 5.14+ is required in the postgresql16 docs like there is in the
> postgresql17 docs. See doc pages:

The v16 code and documentation changes were made at the same time, here:

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=4c1532763

We rearranged the installation documentation in v17, so the comments
about perl version may be in a different place now.  But v16 certainly
documented it in the place that was appropriate at the time.

			regards, tom lane