Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?

From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?
Date: 2025-04-24 11:16:07
Message-ID: CAGECzQRvxmRD+7cqU8akw+AQ_3j2PfSH1Xrnz5QL+OosVQXH8A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 at 10:54, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> The cut-off in practice for these things is usually RHEL. PG18
> currently still supports RHEL 7, which appears to come with Python 3.6.
> Seeing that the small problem with the test script was easily fixed, I
> think we should stick with that for now. There might be value in
> dropping support for RHEL 7 sometime, but that should be done across the
> board (meson version, openssl version, perl version, etc.), and requires
> some buildfarm changes, so I wouldn't do this right now.

RHEL7 is not supported by Devrim for PG16 and PG17 already[1]. Did you
mean something different with "PG18 currently still supports RHEL 7"?

[1]: https://yum.postgresql.org/news/rhel7-postgresql-rpms-end-of-life/

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