Re: Python 3.1 support

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: jd@commandprompt.com
Cc: Nathan Boley <npboley@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, James Pye <lists@jwp.name>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-18T17:28:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yes.  That's exactly what I was complaining about upthread.  I'm not
>> a Python user, but from what I can gather of the 2-to-3 changes,
>> having to choose one at package build time is going to be a disaster.

> Agreed. We really need to have a plpython and plpython3.

Peter was concerned about duplicative maintenance effort, but what I
think this patch shows is that (at least for the near future) both
could be built from a single source file.  What we need is configure
and makefile support to do that.

			regards, tom lane