Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?

Florents Tselai <florents(dot)tselai(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 19 Apr 2025, at 7:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think we need to do some combination of moving our
>> minimum-supported-version goalposts forward, making sure that
>> whatever we claim is the minimum Python version is actually
>> being tested in the buildfarm, and fixing oauth_server.py
>> so that it works on that version.

> From an Python ecosystem perspective,
> 3.9 is the usual minimum that people use in CI matrices nowdays.
> So if it was up to me, that’s what I’d choose.

Per these numbers, that would be cutting off 31% of the buildfarm,
including a lot of still-in-support distros such as RHEL8.
So I would say that's not likely to be our choice.

regards, tom lane