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| author | Tom Lane | 2014-03-27 02:43:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane | 2014-03-27 02:43:36 +0000 |
| commit | f3cfc23195e3363ceab49449ed851944bcaf0849 (patch) | |
| tree | 459959d5015e16d44b198b48f844669b92af474f | |
| parent | 7e4d1600a621ee4e786e715bc82eaad1113dba0e (diff) | |
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.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml index 673ec243eaa..1dee8f4ccba 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml @@ -203,8 +203,12 @@ su - postgres language, you need a <productname>Python</productname> installation with the header files and the <application>distutils</application> module. The minimum - required version is <productname>Python</productname> - 2.3. <productname>Python 3</productname> is supported if it's + required version is <productname>Python</productname> 2.3. + For full functionality, a 2.3.x installation must include the + separately-available <filename>cdecimal</> module; in particular + the <application>PL/Python</> regression tests will not pass if that + is missing. + <productname>Python 3</productname> is supported if it's version 3.1 or later; but see <![%standalone-include[the <application>PL/Python</> documentation]]> <![%standalone-ignore[<xref linkend="plpython-python23">]]> |