Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

To: Renan Alves Fonseca <renanfonseca@gmail.com>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-04-22T19:32:41Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM Renan Alves Fonseca
<renanfonseca@gmail.com> wrote:
> The oldest non EOL version is 3.9 right now. My suggestion is to follow
> the official supported releases.

I think this policy is too aggressive. Many operating systems we
support are going to ship Python versions past their EOL date (and
keep them supported for a long while with security patches). There's a
middle ground to be found, IMO.

--Jacob

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plpython: Remove obsolete test expected file
- 1a857348e47d 18.0 landed
Bump the minimum supported Python version to 3.6.8
- 45363fca6372 18.0 landed
oauth: Support Python 3.6 in tests
- 005ccae0f2d6 18.0 landed