From f3cfc23195e3363ceab49449ed851944bcaf0849 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:43:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Document that Python 2.3 requires cdecimal module for full functionality. This has been true for some time, but we were leaving users to discover it the hard way. Back-patch to 9.2. It might've been true before that, but we were claiming Python 2.2 compatibility before that, so I won't guess at the exact requirements back then. --- doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml index 673ec243ea..1dee8f4ccb 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml @@ -203,8 +203,12 @@ su - postgres language, you need a Python installation with the header files and the distutils module. The minimum - required version is Python - 2.3. Python 3 is supported if it's + required version is Python 2.3. + For full functionality, a 2.3.x installation must include the + separately-available cdecimal module; in particular + the PL/Python regression tests will not pass if that + is missing. + Python 3 is supported if it's version 3.1 or later; but see PL/Python documentation]]> ]]> -- 2.40.0