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

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Time to drop plpython2?
Date
Msg-id 20211031190542.pi2y7hmcqcyduw2w@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Time to drop plpython2?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Time to drop plpython2?  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On 2021-10-31 14:49:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> 7 years?  Oh, you're envisioning dropping plpython2 in HEAD but keeping
> it alive in the back branches.

Yea. It's annoying to support python2, but I don't think it's severe
enough to consider dropping support in released branches. We might get
to that point for the newer released versions, but for now...


> Yeah, it's a bit hard to justify continuing support in HEAD.

Cool.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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