I wrote:
> gaur (python 2.5) is showing a different output pathology:
A bit of google research indicates that Python did not have reliable
handling of infinity or NaN floats until 2.6; before that, you could
get failures or platform-specific results from code like float('inf').
So this test ain't gonna work as-is on old versions.
I see a few options:
1. Just remove the tests involving inf/nan. As far as I can see,
there's no explicit handling of these cases in jsonb_plpython,
so we're not really buying any test coverage of our own code anyway.
2. Maintain additional expected-output files. One problem with this
is it's not clear how many we'd need.
3. Somehow tweak the test cases in a different way, so that they're
not exercised before 2.6.
4. Move our minimum supported Python version up to 2.6 (from 2.4
where it is now).
#4 seems like an overreaction at first sight, but on the other
hand, I wonder how many people really care about pre-2.6 anymore
anyway. (2.4 was released Nov. 2004, 2.6 Oct 2008.) AFAIR, the only
reason I'm running 2.5 on gaur/pademelon is we claim to support it.
regards, tom lane
