Re: Python 3.1 support

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Nathan Boley <npboley(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, James Pye <lists(at)jwp(dot)name>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Python 3.1 support
Date: 2009-11-18 17:21:23
Message-ID: 1258564883.20737.2.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com
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On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nathan Boley <npboley(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Also, I am a little skeptical about this patch. I am sorry if this has
> > already been discussed, but would this mean that I need to choose
> > whether pl/python is built against Python 2.* or Python 3.*?
>
> Yes. That's exactly what I was complaining about upthread. I'm not
> a Python user, but from what I can gather of the 2-to-3 changes,
> having to choose one at package build time is going to be a disaster.
>

Agreed. We really need to have a plpython and plpython3. Heck this would
play nicely too because we support backward compatibility but also
upward version differences.

Joshua D. Drake

> regards, tom lane
>

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