Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm member Narwhal: Python 2.5/8.1

2007-04-17 Thread Dave Page
Tom Lane wrote: Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew Dunstan wrote: The question in my mind is this: how much do we back-patch to cover new and incompatible releases of software we depend on? I guess that depends on the invasiveness - in this case it's a couple of simple updates to t

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm member Narwhal: Python 2.5/8.1

2007-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> The question in my mind is this: how much do we back-patch to cover new >> and incompatible releases of software we depend on? > I guess that depends on the invasiveness - in this case it's a couple of > simple updates to the regre

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm member Narwhal: Python 2.5/8.1

2007-04-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Dave Page wrote: New buildfarm member Narwhal is failing the PL regression tests for Python on REL8_1_STABLE. This appears to be because it's running Python 2.5 (the causes being a deprecated module - whrandom - and some changed messages). The former problem was fixed by Peter, and the latter

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm member Narwhal: Python 2.5/8.1

2007-04-17 Thread Dave Page
Andrew Dunstan wrote: The question in my mind is this: how much do we back-patch to cover new and incompatible releases of software we depend on? Python 2.5 was released on 19 Sept 2006, long after Postgres 8.1. I guess you could make a case to say that we should back-patch to the release immed

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm member Narwhal: Python 2.5/8.1

2007-04-17 Thread Marko Kreen
On 4/17/07, Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: New buildfarm member Narwhal is failing the PL regression tests for Python on REL8_1_STABLE. This appears to be because it's running Python 2.5 (the causes being a deprecated module - whrandom - and some changed messages). I also suggest backport