Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6
Date: 2015-07-01 21:09:06
Message-ID: 12418.1435784946@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On 07/01/2015 01:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>>> At the very least I think we should start to rely on 'static inline's
>>> working. There is not, and hasn't been for a while, any buildfarm animal
>>> that does not support it

>> pademelon doesn't.

> Other reasoning aside, pademelon is running an HPUX version that is 10
> years old. I don't think we should care.

Try 16. The reason I run it is not because anyone cares about actually
running Postgres on such a machine; it's just so that we will know when
we are breaking compatibility with ancient C compilers. I brought it up
merely to refute Andres' claim that we do not have buildfarm coverage
of the case.

regards, tom lane

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