On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Yes.  That's exactly what I was complaining about upthread.  I'm not
> >> a Python user, but from what I can gather of the 2-to-3 changes,
> >> having to choose one at package build time is going to be a disaster.
> 
> > Agreed. We really need to have a plpython and plpython3.
> 
> Peter was concerned about duplicative maintenance effort, but what I
> think this patch shows is that (at least for the near future) both
> could be built from a single source file.  What we need is configure
> and makefile support to do that.

Ahh, so we would have:

--enable-plpython2=/usr/bin/python2
--enable-plpython3=/usr/bin/python3

?

That seems reasonable if we can run both. Although I wonder if longer
term (2.x is going to be support a long time) we will end up with
frustration within the single source file trying to keep things
straight.

Joshua D. Drake


> 
>                       regards, tom lane
> 


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