From: | Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(at)redhat(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: obsoleting plpython2u and defaulting plpythonu to plpython3u |
Date: | 2018-04-27 16:38:05 |
Message-ID: | 2206392.pEz1MZeHUL@nb.usersys.redhat.com |
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On Friday, April 27, 2018 5:51:57 PM CEST Tom Lane wrote:
> Note that there's a specific timeline there: they expect PEP 394 to get
> changed not more than 2 years from now. I am not sure if Red Hat has
> enough pull in the Python community to guarantee that will happen, but
> do you want to bet against it?
Well, also it depends what's meant by "get PEP 394 changed". My guess is
that distros might well avoid providing /bin/python if that PEP is
a concern.. that's actually typical situation in Fedora even now; python2
package isn't installed by default. And it can disappear entirely if
that's too expensive for maintenance.
To me, PEP 394 is mostly about python distributors - not about python
projects; so IMO for PostgreSQL that PEP is a bit orthogonal thing.
For quite some time already, doing 'CREATE EXTENSION plpython' implies at
least some (maybe serious) migration headaches in not so distant future.
> > So that's all great. There are some opportunities for prep work in the
> > meantime that have been mentioned.
>
> We should evidently plan on making this stuff happen in v12, or we're
> going to be behind the curve.
Agreed, but I'm still not sure what would be the expected 2->3 migration
path. If that change happens in PG v12, people will migrate to that from
v11 and there's the trouble. Would it technically possible to upgrade
such clusters with pg_upgrade when 'plpythonu' silently goes from
'plpython2.so' to 'plpython3.so' behind the scenes?
Or is it expected that people will migrate semi-automatically/manually
from plpython2 to plpython3 on v11 - before hitting pg_upgrade?
Pavel
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