Re: [HACKERS] Deadlock in XLogInsert at AIX

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Deadlock in XLogInsert at AIX
Date: 2018-01-23 14:52:39
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZ6n1zGe-yV1yL5FsaVvRwYdGRcPEVRCGe94sghBmULwA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> If nobody is willing to put in the effort to keep AIX supported under
>> XLC, then we should just update the documentation to say that it isn't
>> supported. Our support for that platform is pretty marginal anyway if
>> we're only supporting it up through 6.1; that was released in 2007 and
>> went out of support in Q2 of last year.
>
> Huh? We have somebody just upthread saying that they're working out
> issues on newer AIX. We should at least give them time to finish
> that research before making any decisions.

Well, I certainly have no problem with that in theory. That's why my
sentence started with the word "if".

On a practical level, this thread has been dead for almost a year, and
has revived slightly because Michael bumped it, but nobody has really
made a firm commitment to do any specific thing to move this issue
forward. I'm happy if they do, but it might not happen.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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