Re: Time to drop plpython2?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Time to drop plpython2?
Date: 2021-10-31 19:05:42
Message-ID: 20211031190542.pi2y7hmcqcyduw2w@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2021-10-31 14:49:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > To me it seems time to drop plpython2 support. Supporting plpython2
> > until ~7 years after python2 is EOL is already quite long... It'd be one
> > thing if it were completely painless, but imo it's not.
>
> 7 years? Oh, you're envisioning dropping plpython2 in HEAD but keeping
> it alive in the back branches.

Yea. It's annoying to support python2, but I don't think it's severe
enough to consider dropping support in released branches. We might get
to that point for the newer released versions, but for now...

> Yeah, it's a bit hard to justify continuing support in HEAD.

Cool.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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