Re: Minimum supported version of Python?

Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 16 March 2014 11:55, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Our documentation claims that the minimum Python version for plpython
>> is 2.3. However, an attempt to build with that on an old Mac yielded
>> a bunch of failures in the plpython_types regression test, all of the
>> form
>> ...
>> Personally I have no desire to put any effort into fixing this, and
>> thus suggest that we just change the documentation to specify that 2.5
>> is the minimum Python version since 9.0.

> +1 for updating the documentation. 2.5 has been around since 2006 so
> we are offering a huge range of compatibility as it stands. Versions
> earlier than 2.5 are probably only of interest to historians at this
> point.

Yeah, the lack of complaints from the field suggests strongly that
nobody cares about this, so I'll just go change the docs.

regards, tom lane