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commit    2a33b796ee27732c1854f41594329afbb9ffba3d
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Thu Mar 27 02:43:24 2014 +0000
First released in: 9.4.0, REL9_2_STABLE (reverted before release), REL9_3_STABLE (reverted before release)
Reverted by: 952f0153f3d6 (in 9.2.9), 611fc913f400 (in 9.3.5)

    Document that Python 2.3 requires cdecimal module for full functionality.
    
    This has been true for some time, but we were leaving users to discover it
    the hard way.
    
    Back-patch to 9.2.  It might've been true before that, but we were claiming
    Python 2.2 compatibility before that, so I won't guess at the exact
    requirements back then.


 doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index 9bee4236773..6f5c108b719 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -206,8 +206,12 @@ su - postgres
       language, you need a <productname>Python</productname>
       installation with the header files and
       the <application>distutils</application> module.  The minimum
-      required version is <productname>Python</productname>
-      2.3.  <productname>Python 3</productname> is supported if it's
+      required version is <productname>Python</productname> 2.3.
+      For full functionality, a 2.3.x installation must include the
+      separately-available <filename>cdecimal</> module; in particular
+      the <application>PL/Python</> regression tests will not pass if that
+      is missing.
+      <productname>Python 3</productname> is supported if it's
       version 3.1 or later; but see
       <![%standalone-include[the <application>PL/Python</> documentation]]>
       <![%standalone-ignore[<xref linkend="plpython-python23">]]>


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