Re: removing old ports and architectures

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 10/17/13 12:45 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> The attached patch, which I propose to apply relatively soon if nobody
>> objects, removes the IRIX port.
>
> +1

Done. And here's a patch for removing the alpha architecture and
Tru64 UNIX (aka OSF/1) which runs on that architecture, per discussion
upthread. Barring objections, I'll apply this next week.

On a related note, I think we should update the paragaraph in
installation.sgml that begins "In general, PostgreSQL can be expected
to work on these CPU architectures". Any architecture that doesn't
have a buildfarm animal should be relegated to the second sentence,
which reads "Code support exists for ... but these architectures are
not known to have been tested recently." Similarly, I think the
following paragraph should be revised so that only operating systems
for which we have current buildfarm support are considered fully
supported. Others should be relegated to a sentence later in the
paragraph that says something like "code support exists but not tested
recently" or "expected to work but not tested regularly".

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