Bare minimum seems to be 8.2. Tried 8.1 and it has lots of issues: too many to worry...

diff --git a/README b/README
index 86ea86c2841c76a8d334657b4ee6a8264e4c5d54..7078503ea0ff7d225da8aae53c206e17908007b0 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
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     build, test, and install Perl 5                (at least 5.8.3)
-    build, test, and install Postgres              (at least 8.1)
+    build, test, and install Postgres              (at least 8.2)
     build, test, and install the DBI module        (at least 1.51)
     build, test, and install the DBD::Pg module    (at least 2.0.0)
     build, test, and install the DBIx::Safe module (at least 1.2.4)