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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: Obsolete warning on Python 2.4
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Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 9/19/16 1:21 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> That seems uninteresting to anyone in 2016. Any objections to removing it?

> We're still maintaining compatibility with Python 2.4 and the bug
> apparently still exists, so I would perhaps keep it until we kill
> support for Python 2.4.

Since the bug doesn't happen in production builds of Python, only in
debug builds, I'm not really worried that it's still a factor, even
if you believe that the Python folk still haven't patched it.

In short, I agree with Heikki that we could remove this.

			regards, tom lane


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