Re: What's our minimum supported Python version?

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure most users of RHEL expect most modern software not to
> compile/work completely effortlessly on their distros without some
> effort on their part or on the part of RHEL packagers. That's kinda
> what you're signing up for if you choose a distro like that.

This is the core of my position, too. I think it's reasonable to
support Python versions for some time after they go EOL, but I don't
think that we need to treat "users who want bleeding-edge Postgres
with long-EOL dependencies" as something to cater to, at the expense
of the committer testing matrix.

Note that Meson itself has updated to Python 3.7 as a minimum version
(as it now warns you, loudly).

Thanks,
--Jacob