Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?

On 24.04.25 13:16, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> 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/

There are approximately 6 buildfarm members with RHEL 7 or CentOS 7, so
in that sense, "support" means that everything is expected to work
there. And some amount of work has been done recently to keep that
support alive.

(But I'm confused now because I see Python 3.6 on both the RHEL 7 and
the RHEL 8 animals. So it's not clear how representative these animals
are especially with respect to the Python versions.)