Hi, Continuing the discussion from https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2146739.1637004415%40sss.pgh.pa.us
On 2021-11-15 14:26:55 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > * Meson only promises support back to python 3.6, but if that's > accurate it's going to be a problem for us, because there are lots > of live LTS distributions with older python3 (RHEL7, Solaris 11.3, > AIX 7.2 for starters). I've been planning to do some testing and > see if meson will run under python 3.4 or 3.5. Slightly older versions, which do work to build postgres with the proposed patchset, run on python3 3.5. I don't think it's likely we could make the versions that only required 3.4 work reasonably. Is RHEL7 really an issue? I only have Centos 7 around, but that has python 3.6. I don't know much about AIX, but according to https://repology.org/project/python/versions the AIX toolbox has 3.7.11. I don't know enough about AIX to know whether there's other sources of python3, bison, etc that are common. On the AIX system I have access to they all seem to be symlinked to /opt/freeware, which I understand is that toolbox stuff? Greetings, Andres Freund
