| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Obsolete warning on Python 2.4 |
| Date: | 2016-09-20 17:31:58 |
| Message-ID: | 04f81c77-ee67-5604-4297-ecd8969d3cf3@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 9/19/16 1:21 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> The docs say:
>> Warning
>>
>> Due to Python bug #1483133, some debug versions of Python 2.4
>> (configured and compiled with option --with-pydebug) are known to
>> crash the PostgreSQL server when using an iterator to return a set
>> result. Unpatched versions of Fedora 4 contain this bug. It does not
>> happen in production versions of Python or on patched versions of
>> Fedora 4.
>
> That seems uninteresting to anyone in 2016. Any objections to removing it?
We're still maintaining compatibility with Python 2.4 and the bug
apparently still exists, so I would perhaps keep it until we kill
support for Python 2.4.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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