| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove AIX Support (was: Re: Relation bulk write facility) |
| Date: | 2024-02-29 08:57:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20240229085731.3rjfikacs4rw6xqi@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2024-02-29 09:13:04 +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> The commit message says there is not a lot of user demand and that might
> be right, but contrary to other fringe OSes that got removed like HPPA
> or Irix, I believe Postgres on AIX is still used in production and if
> so, probably in a mission-critical manner at some old-school
> institutions (in fact, one of our customers does just that) and not as a
> thought-experiment. It is probably well-known among Postgres hackers
> that AIX support is problematic/a burden, but the current users might
> not be aware of this.
Then these users should have paid somebody to actually do maintenance work on
the AIX support,o it doesn't regularly stand in the way of implementing
various things.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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