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Tom Lane authored
As of commit 28782206, PL/Tcl will not compile against pre-8.0 Tcl, whereas it used to work (more or less anyway) with quite prehistoric versions. As long as we're moving these goalposts, let's reinstall them at someplace that has some thought behind it. This commit sets the minimum allowed Tcl version at 8.4, and rips out some bits of compatibility cruft that are in consequence no longer needed. Reasons for requiring 8.4 include: * 8.4 was released in 2002; there seems little reason to believe that anyone would want to use older versions with Postgres 9.6+. * We have no buildfarm members testing anything older than 8.4, and thus no way to know if it's broken. * We need at least 8.1 to allow enforcement of database encoding security (8.1 standardized Tcl on using UTF8 internally, before that it was pretty unpredictable). * Some versions between 8.1 and 8.4 allowed the backend to become multithreaded, which is disastrous. We need at least 8.4 to be able to disable the Tcl notifier subsystem to prevent that. A small side benefit is that we can make the code more readable by doing s/CONST84/const/g.
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