This variable is apparently only for Python internally. In newer releases
of Python this variable pulls in more and more libraries that users are
less likely to have, leading to potential build failures.
Behaves more or less unchanged compared to Python 2, but the new language
variant is called plpython3u. Documentation describing the naming scheme
is included.
shell construct to hide away the stderr output. Python 3.1 actually core
dumps on the current invocation (http://bugs.python.org/issue7111), but the
new version also has the more general advantage of saving the error message
in config.log for analysis.
print foo --> print(foo)
string.join(...) --> ' '.join(...)
These changes are backward compatible.
The actual plpython module appears to need significant updates to support
Python 3.0, though. This change just relieves interested developers from
having to deal with Autoconf.
-L spec rather than assuming libpython is in the standard search path
(this returns to the way 7.4 did it). But check the distutils output
to see if it looks like Python has built a shared library, and if so
link with that instead of the probably-not-shared library found in
configdir.
choice of compiler and flags, uninstall, and peculiar Python installation
layouts for PyGreSql. Also install into site-packages now, as officially
recommended. And pgdb.py is also installed now, used to be forgotten.
that now functions as a wrapper around the MakeMaker stuff. It might
even behave sensically when we have separate build dirs. Same for plperl,
which of course still doesn't work very well. Made sure that plperl
respects the choice of --libdir.
Added --with-python to automatically build and install the Python interface.
Works similarly to the Perl5 stuff.
Moved the burden of the distclean targets lower down into the source tree.
Eventually, each make file should have its own.
Added automatic remaking of makefiles and configure. Currently only for the
top-level because of a bug(?) in Autoconf. Use GNU `missing' to work around
missing autoconf and aclocal. Start factoring out macros into their own
config/*.m4 files to increase readability and organization.
Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Daemon