Re: Python 3.1 support

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 01:19 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tor, 2009-11-12 at 16:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > There was considerable debate earlier about whether we wanted to treat
> > Python 3 as a separate PL so it could be available in parallel with
> > plpython 2, because of the user-level coding incompatibilities.  It
> > looks like this patch simply ignores that problem.  What is going to
> > happen to plpython functions that depend on 2.x behavior?
> 
> I have a proposal for how to handle this, and a prototype patch
> attached.  This follows essentially what the CPython distribution itself
> does, which will make this tolerably easy to follow for users.
> 
> We install plpython as plpython2.so or plpython3.so, depending on the
> version used to build it.  Then, plpython.so is a symlink to
> plpython2.so.
> 
> We then create three language definition templates:
> 
> plpythonu -> plpython.so
> plpython2u -> plpython2.so
> plpython3u -> plpython3.so
> 

> 
> Comments?

Well as a Python guy... makes sense to me :)

Joshua D. Drake


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