Re: Minimum supported version of Python?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Minimum supported version of Python?
Date: 2014-03-18 02:31:53
Message-ID: 1395109913.18470.10.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 22:34 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, if you want to consider python 2.3 as supported, I have a buildfarm
> machine I am about to put online that has 2.3 on it. If I spin it up with
> python enabled, I expect you to see to it that it starts passing. If you
> won't do that, I'm going to change the documentation.

As I said, according to my testing, 2.3 is supported. If your
experience is different, then please submit a reproducible bug report.

> As for 2.4 vs 2.5, I don't have a lot of faith that we're really
> supporting anything that's not represented in the buildfarm...

There are many other features that the build farm doesn't test and that
I don't have a lot of faith in, but I'm not proposing to remove those.
I don't control what the build farm tests, I only control my own work.

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