Re: Python 3.1 support
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-14T18:47:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote: > I wrote: >> On tor, 2009-11-12 at 16:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> > There was considerable debate earlier about whether we wanted to treat >> > Python 3 as a separate PL so it could be available in parallel with >> > plpython 2, because of the user-level coding incompatibilities. It >> > looks like this patch simply ignores that problem. What is going to >> > happen to plpython functions that depend on 2.x behavior? >> >> I have a proposal for how to handle this, and a prototype patch >> attached. This follows essentially what the CPython distribution itself >> does, which will make this tolerably easy to follow for users. >> >> We install plpython as plpython2.so or plpython3.so, depending on the >> version used to build it. Then, plpython.so is a symlink to >> plpython2.so. > > So here is the potentially final patch for this, including the original > port of plpython.c itself, build system adjustments, and documentation. I think you forgot to actually attach it... ...Robert