On 05/03/2015 06:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> On 05/03/2015 06:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Well, it sort of works. Looks like the hstore_plpython test is expecting
>>> some library function that Python 2.3 doesn't have.
>> I don't know if we have a standard for supported Python versions, but
>> Python 2.3.0 was released in 2003, and the last release in the series,
>> 2.3.7 was released in March 2008. Is that really what ships on a modern OSX?
> No, of course not; prairiedog is a very very trailing-edge box.
> However, we explicitly claim support for Python >= 2.3 in the docs (see
> installation.sgml), which is why prairiedog has that version and not
> some other one. If we're going to move the goalposts on the minimum
> supported version, it should be for a better reason than "I was too
> lazy to craft a regression test using sufficiently backwards-compatible
> library functions".
>
>
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. As it's just a matter of a function call
from python by all means let's change it. The docs say "sorted" is new
in 2.4. See <https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#sorted>,
but this will surely be fairly trivial to fix.
cheers
andrew
