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Python 3.2 is no longer tested by the buildfarm, and there are only a handful of buildfarm animals running versions older than 3.6, which itself went end-of-life in 2021. Python 3.6.8 is the default version shipped in RHEL8, so that seems like a reasonable baseline for PG18. Now that we use the Python Limited API as of 0793ab810, older versions of Python should continue functioning for users of PL/Python in particular, so soften the language from "required" to "supported". Wording by Tom Lane. Separate from the review of the patch itself, several people provided input on the choice of cutoff: Christoph Berg, Devrim Gündüz, Florents Tselai, Jelte Fennema-Nio, and Renan Alves Fonseca. Thank you! Suggested-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16098.1745079444%40sss.pgh.pa.us
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.
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