Re: Roadmap for Postgres on AIX

On 04/17/2013 07:45 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On 19 March 2013 01:00, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
> <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>> wrote:
>
> Wasim Arif <wasimarif(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:wasimarif(at)gmail(dot)com>> writes:
> > What is the road map for Postgres on the AIX platform? I
> understand that
> > the pg build farm contains an AIX 5.3 server; are there any plans to
> > upgrade to 6.1 and 7.1?
>
> The reason there's an AIX 5.3 buildfarm member is that someone cares
> enough about preserving portability to that platform to provide a
> buildfarm member. If you're worried about other AIX releases, I suggest
> you do likewise. It's not a huge burden. Basic info about it is here:
> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/register-form.pl
>
> By and large, our approach to AIX is the same as to any other platform:
> we'll support it as long as users of the platform provide testing and
> any necessary portability fixes. That burden might fall more directly
> on you, as one of a relatively small number of users, than it would on
> somebody using say Linux or BSD. But as long as you are willing to do
> some of the work you need not fear that we're planning to abandon you.
>
>
> For those organisations running PostgreSQL on AIX, I wonder if it would
> be possible for a member of 'IBM PartnerWorld' to use the free 'Virtual
> Loaner' programme[1] to set up build farm members on a range of AIX
> versions and POWER chips.
>
> My employer is in this category, but I am not in a position to
> contribute company time patches or resources currently (although that
> might change). From memory we've had to make a couple of local tweaks
> to makefiles for our particular versions of things, although we are
> mostly focussed on clients on AIX, not the server. But perhaps some of
> the other (rare!) AIX users from the list might be able to look into VPL
> farm animals?
>
> [1] http://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/pub/systems/vlp/index

hmm looks kinda interesting and better POWER coverage on the BF would be
nice - if your company cannot donate time, maybe they could get someone
from the community access to those systems for setting up bf animals?

Stefan