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From: Peter Eisentraut on 14 Dec 2009 13:50 I 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. So here is the potentially final patch for this, including the original port of plpython.c itself, build system adjustments, and documentation. Really attached this time. |