Re: Remove support for old realpath() API

On 12.08.24 08:47, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 6:18 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>> On 05.08.24 09:41, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> On 05/08/2024 09:12, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> The now preferred way to call realpath() is by passing NULL as the
>>>> second argument and get a malloc'ed result. We still supported the
>>>> old way of providing our own buffer as a second argument, for some
>>>> platforms that didn't support the new way yet. Those were only
>>>> Solaris less than version 11 and some older AIX versions (7.1 and
>>>> newer appear to support the new variant). We don't support those
>>>> platforms versions anymore, so we can remove this extra code.
>
> I checked this in the AIX 7.3 manual and the POSIX 2008 way does not
> appear to be mentioned there:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.3?topic=r-realpath-subroutine
>
> That's a bit confusing, or maybe there are just too many versioning
> systems to keep track of and I've made a mistake, because it looks
> like AIX 7.2.5+ has actual certification for Unix V7 AKA SUSv4 AKA
> POSIX 2008... Or maybe the documentation is wrong and it does
> actually work. I guess the IBM crew will be forced to look into this
> as they continue to work on their PostgreSQL/AIX patch, if it doesn't
> work...

Tom had tested this on and found that it does actually work on AIX 7.1
and 7.3 but the documentation is wrong.