Re: Removing "plpythonu" in PG 15

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Removing "plpythonu" in PG 15
Date: 2022-06-10 18:53:22
Message-ID: 2699757.1654887202@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> I see we removed "plpythonu" when we removed "plpython2u" in PG 15. Is
> there a good reason for that?

There was extensive discussion of that in the relevant threads,
but basically (1) risk of confusion and (2) most python installations
have removed "python", not redefined it to mean "python3".

regards, tom lane

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