Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm
Date
Msg-id 1217261945.11220.14.camel@jd-laptop
Whole thread Raw
In response to Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:56 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I notice that we now have four buildfarm members failing in the 8.1
> branch, with symptoms indicating that they are running python 2.5,
> which pre-8.2 plpython has known incompatibilities with.  I think
> it's high time we back-patched those compatibility fixes ... they've
> been in the field long enough in 8.2 and 8.3 that the argument that they
> pose a breakage risk seems pretty weak.  Comments?

Considering the number of users who will be running Python 2.5 in the
next six months (Debian/Ubuntu) that will still be running 8.1 (anyone
that doesn't have a need to go past 8.1), I vote +1.


Joshua D. Drake

-- 
The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ 
PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/
United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/
Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate





pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: "Marko Kreen"
Date:
Subject: dblink security
Next
From: Gregory Stark
Date:
Subject: Re: WITH RECUSIVE patches 0723