#34203: Drop support for psycopg2 2.8
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Reporter: Paolo Melchiorre | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: Database layer | Version: dev
(models, ORM) |
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: postgresql, psycopg | Triage Stage:
| Unreviewed
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Paolo Melchiorre):
Replying to [comment:6 Mariusz Felisiak]:
>> What do you think are the cons of removing `Psycopg2 2.8` support from
`Django 4.2` ?
> Normally we don't bump minimum supported versions of 3rd party packages
when it's not necessary...
> I'd ask what are the pros for Django itself?
The advantage of removing support for Psycopg2 2.8 for Django is to avoid
opening issues related to a version of Psycopg2 that hasn't received new
updates for more than 2 years and still supports very old versions of
Python.
> > Since `Psycopg2 2.8` is **EOL**
> What is the source of this information?
> There are commits in the
[https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/commits/maint_2_8 maint_2_8] branch
after the 2.8.6 release, so as far as I'm aware, we cannot assume that
`2.8.7` will not be released in the future.
In the [https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2/#history history of Psycopg2] I
have never seen a bugfix release after the release of a subsequent major
release. Psycopg2 has no official EOL statement, but after more than 2
years since the last release and 3 major versions released I find a new
version highly unlikely.
I still don't see any drawbacks for Django to remove support for Psycopg2
2.8 , and I think it could be a gradual way to deprecate Psycopg2 2.9
before Django 5.0, but if you think otherwise, please close this issue,
because I understand that the priority right now is to complete support
for Psycop 3.1
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