Re: 7.3 failure on platypus

"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:
> Platypus (http://lnk.nu/pgbuildfarm.org/6yt.pl) started failing about 12
> days ago with the following:
> fe-auth.c: In function `pg_local_sendauth':
> fe-auth.c:466: error: conflicting types for 'cmsgmem'
> fe-auth.c:459: error: previous declaration of 'cmsgmem' was here

Yeah, all of the freebsd 6 buildfarm machines say that :-( ... the fbsd6
system headers contain some incompatible changes, evidently. It looks
like we dealt with this in 7.4 but didn't risk back-patching.

The PG 7.3 branch is definitely showing its age. I'm not sure how
interesting it is to keep updating it for newer platforms; is anyone
very likely to run 7.3 on a new machine, rather than some later PG?

(Note: while I have a personal need to keep supporting 7.3 on RHEL3,
this requirement does not extend to any later platforms; so I don't
personally care very much about back-porting fixes like this. Obviously
my opinion is biased by what Red Hat cares about.)

regards, tom lane