Using the Python Limited API would allow building PL/Python against
any Python 3.x version and using another Python 3.x version at run
time. This commit does not activate that, but it prepares the code to
only use APIs supported by the Limited API.
Implementation details:
- Convert static types to heap types
(https://docs.python.org/3/howto/isolating-extensions.html#heap-types).
- Replace PyRun_String() with component functions.
- Replace PyList_SET_ITEM() with PyList_SetItem().
This was previously committed as c47e8df815 and then reverted because
it wasn't working under Python older than 3.8. That has been fixed in
this version. There was a Python API change/bugfix between 3.7 and
3.8 that directly affects this patch. The relevant commit is
<https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/364f0b0f19c>. The
workarounds described there have been applied in this patch, and it
has been confirmed to work with Python 3.6 and 3.7.
Reviewed-by: Jakob Egger <jakob@eggerapps.at>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ee410de1-1e0b-4770-b125-eeefd4726a24@eisentraut.org
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