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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Florents Tselai <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:38:31 -0400
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Florents Tselai <[email protected]> writes:
> On 19 Apr 2025, at 7:17 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think we need to do some combination of moving our
>> minimum-supported-version goalposts forward, making sure that
>> whatever we claim is the minimum Python version is actually
>> being tested in the buildfarm, and fixing oauth_server.py
>> so that it works on that version.

> From an Python ecosystem perspective,
>  3.9 is the usual minimum that people use in CI matrices nowdays.
> So if it was up to me, that’s what I’d choose. 

Per these numbers, that would be cutting off 31% of the buildfarm,
including a lot of still-in-support distros such as RHEL8.
So I would say that's not likely to be our choice.

			regards, tom lane

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