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drop support for Python 2.3

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-02-08T04:08:25Z
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I would like to propose that we drop support for Python 2.3.  Reasons:

- Python 3.6 was released in December.  The list of versions we need to
manage is growing.

- Older Python versions are increasingly hard to build locally for testing.

- It's unlikely that Python 2.3 is still used in practice.  Python 2.4
is in RHEL 5, which is the typically the oldest mainstream OS we look at.

- We could remove some cruft from the code.

We do have buildfarm coverage on prairiedog.  However, that runs a >10
year old operating system, so I think it is not representing real usage.

Patch attached.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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  1. Adjust PL/Tcl regression test to dodge a possible bug or zone dependency.