Re: Buildfarm member Narwhal: Python 2.5/8.1

Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> writes:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> The question in my mind is this: how much do we back-patch to cover new 
>> and incompatible releases of software we depend on?

> I guess that depends on the invasiveness - in this case it's a couple of 
> simple updates to the regression tests so I think it's probably worth doing.

It's not just the regression tests; there are at least two rounds of
patches in the C code --- plpython.c r1.90, r1.97, maybe r1.100.
Only the first of these has seen any testing "in the wild".

Another objection to patching 8.1 is why stop there ... why not 8.0,
etc?
        regards, tom lane