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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Time to drop plpython2?
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> 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.

7 years?  Oh, you're envisioning dropping plpython2 in HEAD but keeping
it alive in the back branches.  Yeah, it's a bit hard to justify
continuing support in HEAD.

			regards, tom lane