Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:34:56PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I don't really have an opinion about the relative merits of these changes, >> but why do anything? The existing solution has the buildfarm happy, and >> we've not heard any field complaints that I saw. I'm not sure we should >> spend more time on supporting obsolete toolchain combinations that aren't >> represented in the buildfarm.
> It's the other way around. The buildfarm's 32-bit MSVC animals each use an > obsolete Perl. PostgreSQL is incompatible with today's 32-bit ActivePerl and > Strawberry Perl. Oh, OK. In that case, we need to get some representatives of these more modern builds into the buildfarm while we're at it. regards, tom lane