Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6
Date: 2015-08-06 01:39:26
Message-ID: 20150806013926.GD1770418@tornado.leadboat.com
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On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 10:32:48AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > Wasn't the point that 32 bit AIX as a whole hasn't been supported for a
> > couple years now? My willingness to expend effort for that is rather
> > limited.
>
> Well, there's one in the buildfarm. We don't generally turn off
> buildfarm critters just because the underlying OS is out of support
> (the population would be quite a bit lower if we did).

For the record, mandrill's OS and compiler are both in support and not so old
(June 2012 compiler, February 2013 OS). The last 32-bit AIX *kernel* did exit
support in 2012, but 32-bit executables remain the norm.

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