Re: PG20 Minimum Dependency Thread

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-06-21T13:23:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2026-06-21 Su 3:57 AM, Zsolt Parragi wrote:
>> But RHEL provides a supported way to install newer Python versions, so
>> this doesn't necessarily have to mean de-supporting a given RHEL version
>> altogether. I don't have an opinion on that at this time
> 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.


cheers


andrew


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