Re: Remove last traces of HPPA support

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Remove last traces of HPPA support
Date: 2023-10-19 23:37:09
Message-ID: ZTG9pbzvKdk35kpO@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 11:16:28AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> We removed support for the HP-UX OS in v16, but left in support
> for the PA-RISC architecture, mainly because I thought that its
> spinlock mechanism is weird enough to be a good stress test
> for our spinlock infrastructure. It still is that, but my
> one remaining HPPA machine has gone to the great recycle heap
> in the sky. There seems little point in keeping around nominal
> support for an architecture that we can't test and no one is
> using anymore.

Looks OK for the C parts.

> Hence, the attached removes the remaining support for HPPA.
> Any objections?

Would a refresh of config/config.guess and config/config.sub be
suited? This stuff still has references to HPPA.
--
Michael

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