Re: Minimum supported version of Python? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Brendan Jurd
Subject Re: Minimum supported version of Python?
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Msg-id CADxJZo0y-8g=r+n5OkxxUfV1SdTHD0QSeVZGQTopEy_qj8RoSg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Minimum supported version of Python?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Minimum supported version of Python?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Minimum supported version of Python?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On 16 March 2014 11:55, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Our documentation claims that the minimum Python version for plpython
> is 2.3.  However, an attempt to build with that on an old Mac yielded
> a bunch of failures in the plpython_types regression test, all of the
> form
>
...
> Personally I have no desire to put any effort into fixing this, and
> thus suggest that we just change the documentation to specify that 2.5
> is the minimum Python version since 9.0.

+1 for updating the documentation.  2.5 has been around since 2006 so
we are offering a huge range of compatibility as it stands.  Versions
earlier than 2.5 are probably only of interest to historians at this
point.

Cheers,
BJ



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