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 -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com