Re: Time to drop plpython2? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Time to drop plpython2?
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Msg-id 08a65981-7fec-1b9b-4061-6e3086c05914@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Time to drop plpython2?  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Time to drop plpython2?
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On 31.10.21 19:45, Andres Freund wrote:
> To me it seems time to drop plpython2 support. Supporting plpython2
> until ~7 years after python2 is EOL is already quite long... It'd be one
> thing if it were completely painless, but imo it's not.
> 
> I was about to list better plpython2/3 support (including the regex
> replacements for the regress tests) as a TODO for the meson proposal,
> but it doesn't really seem worth investing in that...

Usually, we have dropped support for older Python versions when 
continued support would be a burden for some ongoing development 
project.  This would certainly count as one of those, I think.



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