Re: [HACKERS] drop support for Python 2.3

On 2/21/17 10:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> Based on some not-fun I had along the way to that, I think it would be
> a good idea to do the Python version check a bit earlier than you have
> here.  The shlib search in PGAC_CHECK_PYTHON_EMBED_SETUP is pretty fragile
> and version-dependent, which means that a person could waste a lot of time
> trying to get past the "could not find shared library for Python" error
> before being told that their Python is too old.  I propose to move the
> minimum-version check into _PGAC_CHECK_PYTHON_DIRS, say right after the
> [Python configuration directory] stanza.  Unless there was some specific
> reason for not wanting it to happen in python.m4?

It's fine to move it.

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