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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Time to drop plpython2?
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 06:53:01 +0100
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On 31.10.21 19:45, Andres Freund wrote:
> To me it seems time to drop plpython2 support. Supporting plpython2
> until ~7 years after python2 is EOL is already quite long... It'd be one
> thing if it were completely painless, but imo it's not.
> 
> I was about to list better plpython2/3 support (including the regex
> replacements for the regress tests) as a TODO for the meson proposal,
> but it doesn't really seem worth investing in that...

Usually, we have dropped support for older Python versions when 
continued support would be a burden for some ongoing development 
project.  This would certainly count as one of those, I think.

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