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

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Time to drop plpython2?
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Msg-id 20220216195850.2ca4wnivsl3vbsib@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Time to drop plpython2?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Time to drop plpython2?  (Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>)
Re: Time to drop plpython2?  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Hi,

On 2022-02-16 15:43:19 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 15.02.22 22:40, Andres Freund wrote:
> > 1: plpython: Reject Python 2 during build configuration.
> 
> There is a bit of redundancy in the new wording in installation.sgml:
> 
> "The minimum required version is <productname>Python</productname> 3.2 or
> later."

I stared for a bit, and I just don't see the redundancy?


> There is also a small bit in install-windows.sgml that would be worth
> updating:
> 
> <programlisting>
> $config->{python} = 'c:\python26';
> </programlisting>

Yea. I saw that but ended up with not updating it, because it already was out
of date ;). But I guess I'll just put 310 there or something.


> Other than that, this looks fine to me, and we should move forward with this
> now.

Cool, will apply 1) later today.


> > 2: plpython: Remove plpythonu, plpython2u extensions.
> > 3: plpython: Remove regression test infrastructure for Python 2.
> 
> The removal of the Python 2 contrib extension variants ended up in patch 3,
> which seems incorrect.

Uh, huh. That was a mistake, not sure what happened...

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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