Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?

From: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Renan Alves Fonseca <renanfonseca(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Florents Tselai <florents(dot)tselai(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?
Date: 2025-04-22 19:32:41
Message-ID: CAOYmi+nj7PXfSvqq7=+6pKcANZ3MXUMTUswNWgc0=yK8QqYC4Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM Renan Alves Fonseca
<renanfonseca(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> The oldest non EOL version is 3.9 right now. My suggestion is to follow
> the official supported releases.

I think this policy is too aggressive. Many operating systems we
support are going to ship Python versions past their EOL date (and
keep them supported for a long while with security patches). There's a
middle ground to be found, IMO.

--Jacob

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