Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Bruce Momjian schrieb:
> > Hannu Krosing wrote:
> >> Officially by who ?
> >>
> >> 2.3 was the first version to introduce bool as a subtype of int, in
> >> 2.2.3 True and False were introduced as two variables pointing to
> >> integers 1 and 0.
> >>
> >> So to make your patch ok on all python versions, just make it
> >> conditional on python version being 2.3 or bigger, and return int for
> >> pre-2.3.
> >
> > I thought about suggesting that, but do we want plpython to have
> > different result behavior based on the version of python used? I didn't
> > think so.
>
> Why not? Python2.2 is rarely in use anymore and users of this would get
> the same behavior. Users of python2.3 and up would get the additionally
> cleaned boolean interface - also users which go the from __future__
> import ... way. Thats how python works and develops forth and we should
> not work against that from postgres side.
>
> So I'm indeed +1 for conditional approach.
Fine if people think that is OK. Please submit a patch that is
conditional on the python version.
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