Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm

Am Monday, 28. July 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> I notice that we now have four buildfarm members failing in the 8.1
> branch, with symptoms indicating that they are running python 2.5,
> which pre-8.2 plpython has known incompatibilities with.  I think
> it's high time we back-patched those compatibility fixes

Why would anyone running PostgreSQL 8.1 in production upgrade their stable 
server to Python 2.5, and remove Python 2.4 in the process?  What is the use 
case, except "build farm maintainers can't keep their environments stable"?  
Have we had any complaints from the field about this?