Re: ppc64le support in 9.3 branch?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Mark Wong <mark(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: ppc64le support in 9.3 branch?
Date: 2018-03-26 06:20:00
Message-ID: 20180326062000.GD2759@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 08:01:53PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>> I'm inclined to just ask them to stop running the animals on that
>> branch. There are no pre-existing users on 9.3 ppc64le, and new
>> customers hopefully won't move to 9.3. ISTM backpatching is riskier than
>> just changing a bunch of buildfarm configurations.
>
> +1 for dropping it.

+1. If something like that were to happen for 10 or 9.6 knowing that
they still have four years to go, that could be debated, but just for 6
months there is little benefit.
--
Michael

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