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 -b
name: SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
model: SUNW,501-6230
banner-name: SUNW,Sun-Blade-2000 (2 X UltraSPARC-III+)

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