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