Re: Minimum supported version of Python?

Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
> On 16 March 2014 11:55, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Our documentation claims that the minimum Python version for plpython
>> is 2.3.  However, an attempt to build with that on an old Mac yielded
>> a bunch of failures in the plpython_types regression test, all of the
>> form
>> ...
>> Personally I have no desire to put any effort into fixing this, and
>> thus suggest that we just change the documentation to specify that 2.5
>> is the minimum Python version since 9.0.

> +1 for updating the documentation.  2.5 has been around since 2006 so
> we are offering a huge range of compatibility as it stands.  Versions
> earlier than 2.5 are probably only of interest to historians at this
> point.

Yeah, the lack of complaints from the field suggests strongly that
nobody cares about this, so I'll just go change the docs.
        regards, tom lane