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Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?

Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>

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From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>
Date: 2025-04-24T11:16:07Z
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 at 10:54, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> The cut-off in practice for these things is usually RHEL.  PG18
> currently still supports RHEL 7, which appears to come with Python 3.6.
> Seeing that the small problem with the test script was easily fixed, I
> think we should stick with that for now.  There might be value in
> dropping support for RHEL 7 sometime, but that should be done across the
> board (meson version, openssl version, perl version, etc.), and requires
> some buildfarm changes, so I wouldn't do this right now.

RHEL7 is not supported by Devrim for PG16 and PG17 already[1]. Did you
mean something different with "PG18 currently still supports RHEL 7"?

[1]: https://yum.postgresql.org/news/rhel7-postgresql-rpms-end-of-life/

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  1. plpython: Remove obsolete test expected file

  2. Bump the minimum supported Python version to 3.6.8

  3. oauth: Support Python 3.6 in tests