Merge pull request #15881 from vespa-engine/toregge/delay-using-std-string-starts-with

Don't use method not available on gcc 8 until we drop support for gcc 8.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/storage/src/vespa/storage/distributor/externaloperationhandler.cpp b/storage/src/vespa/storage/distributor/externaloperationhandler.cpp
index f9ec1fffacb..4d960d69322 100644
--- a/storage/src/vespa/storage/distributor/externaloperationhandler.cpp
+++ b/storage/src/vespa/storage/distributor/externaloperationhandler.cpp
@@ -266,7 +266,9 @@ namespace {
 
 bool put_is_from_reindexing_visitor(const api::PutCommand& cmd) {
     const auto& tas_cond = cmd.getCondition();
-    return (tas_cond.isPresent() && (tas_cond.getSelection().starts_with(reindexing_bucket_lock_bypass_prefix())));
+    const char* prefix = reindexing_bucket_lock_bypass_prefix();
+    // Use starts_with when dropping support for gcc 8.
+    return (tas_cond.isPresent() && (tas_cond.getSelection().substr(0, strlen(prefix)) == prefix));
 }
 
 // Precondition: put_is_from_reindexing_visitor(cmd) == true