Re: Python 3.1 support

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
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 17:28:55
Message-ID: 21922.1258565335@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

Peter was concerned about duplicative maintenance effort, but what I
think this patch shows is that (at least for the near future) both
could be built from a single source file. What we need is configure
and makefile support to do that.

regards, tom lane

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