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14.7. Supported Platforms

PostgreSQL has been verified by the developer community to work on the platforms listed below. A supported platform generally means that PostgreSQL builds and installs according to these instructions and that the regression tests pass. "Build farm" entries refer to builds reported by the PostgreSQL Build Farm. Platform entries that show an older version of PostgreSQL are those that did not receive explicit testing at the time of release of version 8.0 but that we still expect to work.

Note: If you are having problems with the installation on a supported platform, please write to , not to the people listed here.

OS Processor Version Reported Remarks
AIX PowerPC 8.0.0 Travis P (), 2004-12-12 see also doc/FAQ_AIX
AIX RS6000 8.0.0 Hans-Jürgen Schönig (), 2004-12-06 see also doc/FAQ_AIX
BSD/OS x86 8.0.0 Bruce Momjian (), 2004-12-07 4.3.1
Debian GNU/Linux Alpha 7.4 Noèl Köthe (), 2003-10-25  
Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 8.0.0 Build farm panda, snapshot 2004-12-06 01:20:02 sid, kernel 2.6
Debian GNU/Linux ARM 8.0.0 Jim Buttafuoco (), 2005-01-06  
Debian GNU/Linux IA64 7.4 Noèl Köthe (), 2003-10-25  
Debian GNU/Linux m68k 8.0.0 Noèl Köthe (), 2004-12-09 sid
Debian GNU/Linux MIPS 8.0.0 Build farm lionfish, snapshot 2004-12-06 11:00:08 3.1 (sarge), kernel 2.4
Debian GNU/Linux PA-RISC 8.0.0 Noèl Köthe (), 2004-12-07 sid
Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC 8.0.0 Noèl Köthe (), 2004-12-15 sid
Debian GNU/Linux S/390 7.4 Noèl Köthe (), 2003-10-25  
Debian GNU/Linux Sparc 8.0.0 Noèl Köthe (), 2004-12-09 sid, 32-bit
Debian GNU/Linux x86 8.0.0 Peter Eisentraut (), 2004-12-06 3.1 (sarge), kernel 2.6
Fedora AMD64 8.0.0 John Gray (), 2004-12-12 FC3
Fedora x86 8.0.0 Build farm dog, snapshot 2004-12-06 02:06:01 FC1
FreeBSD Alpha 7.4 Peter Eisentraut (), 2003-10-25 4.8
FreeBSD x86 8.0.0 Build farm cockatoo, snapshot 2004-12-06 14:10:01 (4.10); Marc Fournier (), 2004-12-07 (5.3)  
Gentoo Linux AMD64 8.0.0 Jani Averbach (), 2005-01-13  
Gentoo Linux x86 8.0.0 Paul Bort (), 2004-12-07  
HP-UX IA64 8.0.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-01-06 11.23, gcc and cc; see also doc/FAQ_HPUX
HP-UX PA-RISC 8.0.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-01-06 10.20 and 11.11, gcc and cc; see also doc/FAQ_HPUX
IRIX MIPS 7.4 Robert E. Bruccoleri (), 2003-11-12 6.5.20, cc only
Mac OS X PowerPC 8.0.0 Andrew Rawnsley (), 2004-12-07 10.3.5
Mandrakelinux x86 8.0.0 Build farm shrew, snapshot 2004-12-06 02:02:01 10.0
NetBSD arm32 7.4 Patrick Welche (), 2003-11-12 1.6ZE/acorn32
NetBSD m68k 8.0.0 Rémi Zara (), 2004-12-14 2.0
NetBSD Sparc 7.4.1 Peter Eisentraut (), 2003-11-26 1.6.1, 32-bit
NetBSD x86 8.0.0 Build farm canary, snapshot 2004-12-06 03:30:00 1.6
OpenBSD Sparc 8.0.0 Chris Mair (), 2005-01-10 3.3
OpenBSD Sparc64 8.0.0 Build farm spoonbill, snapshot 2005-01-06 00:50:05 3.6
OpenBSD x86 8.0.0 Build farm emu, snapshot 2004-12-06 11:35:03 3.6
Red Hat Linux AMD64 8.0.0 Tom Lane (), 2004-12-07 RHEL 3AS
Red Hat Linux IA64 8.0.0 Tom Lane (), 2004-12-07 RHEL 3AS
Red Hat Linux PowerPC 8.0.0 Tom Lane (), 2004-12-07 RHEL 3AS
Red Hat Linux PowerPC 64 8.0.0 Tom Lane (), 2004-12-07 RHEL 3AS
Red Hat Linux S/390 8.0.0 Tom Lane (), 2004-12-07 RHEL 3AS
Red Hat Linux S/390x 8.0.0 Tom Lane (), 2004-12-07 RHEL 3AS
Red Hat Linux x86 8.0.0 Tom Lane (), 2004-12-07 RHEL 3AS
Solaris Sparc 8.0.0 Kenneth Marshall (), 2004-12-07 Solaris 8; see also doc/FAQ_Solaris
Solaris x86 8.0.0 Build farm kudu, snapshot 2004-12-10 02:30:04 (cc); dragonfly, snapshot 2004-12-09 04:30:00 (gcc) Solaris 9; see also doc/FAQ_Solaris
SUSE Linux AMD64 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, SLES 9
SUSE Linux IA64 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux PowerPC 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux PowerPC 64 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux S/390 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux S/390x 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux x86 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, SLES 9
Tru64 UNIX Alpha 8.0.0 Honda Shigehiro (), 2005-01-07 5.0
UnixWare x86 8.0.0 Peter Eisentraut (), 2004-12-14 cc, 7.1.4; see also doc/FAQ_SCO
Windows x86 8.0.0 Dave Page (), 2004-12-07 XP Pro; see doc/FAQ_MINGW
Windows with Cygwin x86 8.0.0 Build farm gibbon, snapshot 2004-12-11 01:33:01 see doc/FAQ_CYGWIN

Unsupported Platforms: The following platforms are either known not to work, or they used to work in a fairly distant previous release. We include these here to let you know that these platforms could be supported if given some attention.

OS Processor Version Reported Remarks
BeOS x86 7.2 Cyril Velter (), 2001-11-29 needs updates to semaphore code
Linux PlayStation 2 8.0.0 Chris Mair (), 2005-01-09 requires --disable-spinlocks (works, but slow)
NetBSD Alpha 7.2 Thomas Thai (), 2001-11-20 1.5W
NetBSD MIPS 7.2.1 Warwick Hunter (), 2002-06-13 1.5.3
NetBSD PowerPC 7.2 Bill Studenmund (), 2001-11-28 1.5
NetBSD VAX 7.1 Tom I. Helbekkmo (), 2001-03-30 1.5
QNX 4 RTOS x86 7.2 Bernd Tegge (), 2001-12-10 needs updates to semaphore code; see also doc/FAQ_QNX4
QNX RTOS v6 x86 7.2 Igor Kovalenko (), 2001-11-20 patches available in archives, but too late for 7.2
SCO OpenServer x86 7.3.1 Shibashish Satpathy (), 2002-12-11 5.0.4, gcc; see also doc/FAQ_SCO
SunOS 4 Sparc 7.2 Tatsuo Ishii (), 2001-12-04  
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