Obsolete warning on Python 2.4

On 9/19/16 1:21 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

The docs say:

Warning

Due to Python bug #1483133, some debug versions of Python 2.4
(configured and compiled with option --with-pydebug) are known to
crash the PostgreSQL server when using an iterator to return a set
result. Unpatched versions of Fedora 4 contain this bug. It does not
happen in production versions of Python or on patched versions of
Fedora 4.

That seems uninteresting to anyone in 2016. Any objections to removing it?

We're still maintaining compatibility with Python 2.4 and the bug
apparently still exists, so I would perhaps keep it until we kill
support for Python 2.4.

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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

On 9/19/16 1:21 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

That seems uninteresting to anyone in 2016. Any objections to removing it?

We're still maintaining compatibility with Python 2.4 and the bug
apparently still exists, so I would perhaps keep it until we kill
support for Python 2.4.

Since the bug doesn't happen in production builds of Python, only in
debug builds, I'm not really worried that it's still a factor, even
if you believe that the Python folk still haven't patched it.

In short, I agree with Heikki that we could remove this.

regards, tom lane

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