Re: Time to drop plpython2?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Time to drop plpython2?
Date: 2021-11-04 18:58:54
Message-ID: 3fc1211d-960b-4b2f-3e96-a6099db847fc@enterprisedb.com
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I see you have posted a patch for this in the meson thread
(https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/attachment/127770/v5-0003-plpython-Drop-support-python2.patch)
Here is my review of that.

I would change the search order in configure from

PGAC_PATH_PROGS(PYTHON, [python python3 python2])

to

PGAC_PATH_PROGS(PYTHON, [python3 python])

This makes sure you don't accidentally pick up a "python" binary that
points to Python 2. This would otherwise immediately generate lots of
build failures on older platforms that still have Python 2 around.

You left two FIXME sections in plpython.h. AFAICT, we can make the
substitutions corresponding to those #define's in the source code and
remove those blocks.

src/pl/plpython/expected/README should be updated for the removed files.

Some documentation updates are needed. I see possibly relevant text in
the following files:

hstore.sgml
install-windows.sgml
installation.sgml
json.sgml
libpq.sgml
plpython.sgml
ref/comment.sgml (examples)
ref/create_transform.sgml (examples)
ref/drop_transform.sgml (examples)
standalone-profile.xsl

src/tools/msvc/ has lots of Python-related content.

More stuff to clean up:

contrib/hstore_plpython/.gitignore
contrib/jsonb_plpython/.gitignore
contrib/ltree_plpython/.gitignore
src/pl/plpython/.gitignore

Finally, morally related, there is some Python 2/3 compat code in
contrib/unaccent/generate_unaccent_rules.py that could be removed.
Also, arguably, change the shebang line in that script.

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