Re: PostgreSQL 15 Beta 1 release announcement draft - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Justin Clift
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 15 Beta 1 release announcement draft
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Msg-id 49bdb7dcbe4b780bf4a621a59257f94b@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL 15 Beta 1 release announcement draft  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL 15 Beta 1 release announcement draft  (Valeria Kaplan <vk@dataegret.com>)
Re: PostgreSQL 15 Beta 1 release announcement draft  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>)
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On 2022-05-18 10:24, Adrian Klaver wrote:
<snip>
> I think there needs to be mention that plpythonu and plpython2u  are
> going away and there will only be plpython3u . Especially since in
> current docs it says:
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpython-python23.html
> 
> "The language named plpythonu implements PL/Python based on the
> default Python language variant, which is currently Python 2. (This
> default is independent of what any local Python installations might
> consider to be their “default”, for example, what /usr/bin/python
> might be.) The default will probably be changed to Python 3 in a
> distant future release of PostgreSQL, depending on the progress of the
> migration to Python 3 in the Python community."
> 
> This is going to catch people by surprise. A heads up in the release
> announcement will mitigate that.

This sounds like a good idea. :)

+ Justin



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