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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zsolt Parragi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PG20 Minimum Dependency Thread
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:02:49 -0400
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Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2026-06-21 Su 3:57 AM, Zsolt Parragi wrote:
>> That's possible on most (all?) platforms (pyenv/asdf/uv/mise/...). All
>> with a question mark because I have no idea which of these would work
>> on solaris, but some of them are pure bash scripts so those should
>> work. (and that ignores windows, but that also shouldn't be an issue
>> generally). These would be per user custom built pythons, so they
>> would only work with the different plpython/pytest python approach,
>> but would allow using the latest python for the test suite on all
>> platforms.

> I think the idea is that we should be able to build with what the distro 
> itself supports.

Quite honestly, if we demand that buildfarm owners install some
version of python that their platform doesn't package, they will
simply not enable pytest testing.  Care and feeding of a BF
animal is already a nontrivial investment of effort.  I'm especially
not believing that people will install two different python versions
in support of this.

			regards, tom lane

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