On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 8:41 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm starting to think that we'd thank ourselves in the long run > if we did do the conversion in all branches at once.
Avoiding the "big bang" port was one of the reasons I proposed adding a Python suite that only does things we don't currently do in Perl (a pared-down option B, plus Test::Session). That way, we shake out the Python deployment/maintenance questions and begin to develop a shared vocabulary *before* the entirety of the test suite starts depending on it. That wouldn't preclude an eventual flag day, if we decided to. But if Python can land and be developed while other people are continuing to hack on features and backport tests, I think that's more likely to succeed. I agree with Melanie; I really don't want people to hate this. --Jacob
