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: 2021-11-01 05:53:01
Message-ID: 08a65981-7fec-1b9b-4061-6e3086c05914@enterprisedb.com
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On 31.10.21 19:45, Andres Freund wrote:
> To me it seems time to drop plpython2 support. Supporting plpython2
> until ~7 years after python2 is EOL is already quite long... It'd be one
> thing if it were completely painless, but imo it's not.
>
> I was about to list better plpython2/3 support (including the regex
> replacements for the regress tests) as a TODO for the meson proposal,
> but it doesn't really seem worth investing in that...

Usually, we have dropped support for older Python versions when
continued support would be a burden for some ongoing development
project. This would certainly count as one of those, I think.

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