Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm
Date: 2008-07-29 07:58:33
Message-ID: 200807291058.33911.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Monday, 28. July 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> I notice that we now have four buildfarm members failing in the 8.1
> branch, with symptoms indicating that they are running python 2.5,
> which pre-8.2 plpython has known incompatibilities with. I think
> it's high time we back-patched those compatibility fixes

Why would anyone running PostgreSQL 8.1 in production upgrade their stable
server to Python 2.5, and remove Python 2.4 in the process? What is the use
case, except "build farm maintainers can't keep their environments stable"?
Have we had any complaints from the field about this?

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