David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> At some point, we will find something where we will have to duplicate
> some large hunk of 5.8's functionality to support 5.6.
No, we won't; we are not in the business of fixing Perl bugs. You
haven't given any reason why someone who is using 5.6 and is happy with
it shouldn't be able to continue to use it with PG.
regards, tom lane