Re: many animals are running old clients

That particular era of equipment is still quite prominent in telecom central office environments, and I know of several telcom nms solutions that use PostgreSQL.  However having said that it's of little likelyhood that those are being updated to use newer versions of postgres or even wether or not they receive security/bugfixes....

Sent on the go, from somewhere other than here.
-------- Original message --------From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> Date: 2018-08-30 05:32 (GMT-06:00) To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, buildfarm-members(at)postgresql(dot)org Subject: Re: many animals are running old clients

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:

> On 08/29/2018 10:35 AM, Dave Page wrote:

>> It's very far from a 5 minute job on ancient Solaris boxes :-(

> Please let me know when issues like this arise.

One thing of the same ilk is that a few months ago I had to give up on

using https reporting on gaur/pademelon, and switch back to http.

I don't think that was your fault, because it was not associated with a

buildfarm client upgrade.  It appeared to me that the pginfra folk had

changed something to require newer TLS versions in https connections to

the buildfarm server.  Like Dave, I spent a fair while trying to install

new-enough Perl modules to fix that, without a lot of success: newer

Perl code doesn't compile on that platform.

It's debatable of course how much anyone cares about buildfarm animals

that are this old.  I've already shut down pademelon since its compiler

never heard of C99, and I don't see much point in running it on just

the back branches.

Right - I do wonder that about this machine (whether it's worth supporting, not whether its compiler supports C99). Here's what we're talking about:
-bash-3.00$ cat /etc/release                       Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC           Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.                        Use is subject to license terms.                           Assembled 14 November 2006-bash-3.00$ prtconf -bname:  SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000model:  SUNW,501-6230banner-name:  SUNW,Sun-Blade-2000 (2 X UltraSPARC-III+)
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