Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Fix for plpython functions; return true/false for boolean,

Added to TODO:

o Allow PL/Python to return boolean rather than 1/0

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00596$

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Guido Goldstein wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Guido Goldstein wrote:
> >> Is it possible to tell me which python versions you want to
> >> support?
> >
> > The issue isn't so much which versions we want to support. There is
> > certainly some flexibility with that. But when a patch breaks the
> > buildfarm a) unannounced and b) without any apparent feature gain, then
> > people get annoyed.
>
> If this breaks the buildfarm it's not my failure.
> Except you can tell me what I've got to do with the
> buildfarm.
>
> If you mean that plpython didn't compile, fine; simply tell
> the people what version they should consider when sending
> in patches.
>
> I've checked the patch with postgres 8.1.3 and 8.2.1
> with python 2.4 and 2.5 on intel 32 bit and amd 64 bit
> systems; all systems running linux.
>
> *And* it's not a feature patch but a bug-fixing one!
> Python is a language with strong typing, so silently
> converting a datatype is a bug -- not a feature.
> Btw, you'll lose the type information of boolean columns in
> trigger functions (NEW and OLD dicts, no explicit parameters),
> which does cause problems.
>
> > That said, we certainly try to support a few more versions of Python
> [...]
>
> If you want to support python 2.3 use the attached patch, which also
> works for the newer python versions.
> The Python 2.3 branch is the oldest _officially_ supported python version.
>
> Anyway, to circumvent the above mentiond point a) I herewith anncounce
> that the included patch might break the buildfarm.
>
> Cheers
> Guido
>

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