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Re: Time to drop plpython2?

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2022-01-13T17:47:40Z
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Hi,


On 2022-01-11 13:59:32 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I suspect at this point, the Meson move isn't going to happen for PostgreSQL
> 15.

Yes - I IIRC even noted early in the thread that I don't think it's realistic
to finish it in time for 15. There's just a good amount of portability hacking
left to be done, and a good chunk of cleanup. I have a new colleague working
on automating testing it on more platforms.

Getting a few of the prerequisite patches in would make it more likely to
succeed in 16 though.


> Even if the code were ready, which it is not, then this kind of thing
> would surely be something more sensible to put into PG16 early rather than
> PG15 late.

Right. There's also a lot of discussion around transition paths etc that need
to be happening first. A lot of other projects that moved ran with multiple
buildsystems for ~1 release, so things could mopped up without blocking
everyone.


> I think what I wrote in the message I'm responding to is the best way
> forward, although maybe with less than 60 days now.

Already happened, but I'm a belated +1 ;)

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. plpython: add missing plpython.h include to plpy_plpymodule.h

  2. plpython: Adjust docs after removal of Python 2 support.

  3. plpython: Code cleanup related to removal of Python 2 support.

  4. plpython: Remove regression test infrastructure for Python 2.

  5. plpython: Remove plpythonu, plpython2u and associated transform extensions.

  6. plpython: Reject Python 2 during build configuration.

  7. Add traceback information to PL/Python errors