Re: Roadmap for Postgres on AIX

Thanks for the detailed and quick response guys.

-Wasim.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Wasim Arif <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.
>
> (FWIW, I believe there was a more-recent AIX version in the buildfarm
> till recently. Don't know why its owner stopped running it.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>