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14.7. Supported Platforms

PostgreSQL has been verified by the developer community to work on the platforms listed below. A supported platform generally means that PostgreSQL builds and installs according to these instructions and that the regression tests pass. "Build farm" entries refer to active test machines in the PostgreSQL Build Farm. Platform entries that show an older version of PostgreSQL are those that did not receive explicit testing at the time of release of version 8.1 but that we still expect to work.

Note: If you are having problems with the installation on a supported platform, please write to , not to the people listed here.

OS Processor Version Reported Remarks
AIX PowerPC 8.1.0 Build farm kookaburra (5.2, cc 6.0); asp (5.2, gcc 3.3.2) see doc/FAQ_AIX, particularly if using AIX 5.3 ML3
AIX RS6000 8.0.0 Hans-Jürgen Schönig (), 2004-12-06 see doc/FAQ_AIX
BSD/OS x86 8.1.0 Bruce Momjian (), 2005-10-26 4.3.1
Debian GNU/Linux Alpha 8.1.0 Build farm hare (3.1, gcc 3.3.4)  
Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 8.1.0 Build farm panda (sid, gcc 3.3.5)  
Debian GNU/Linux ARM 8.1.0 Build farm penguin (3.1, gcc 3.3.4)  
Debian GNU/Linux Athlon XP 8.1.0 Build farm rook (3.1, gcc 3.3.5)  
Debian GNU/Linux IA64 7.4 Noèl Köthe (), 2003-10-25  
Debian GNU/Linux m68k 8.0.0 Noèl Köthe (), 2004-12-09 sid
Debian GNU/Linux MIPS 8.1.0 Build farm otter (3.1, gcc 3.3.4)  
Debian GNU/Linux MIPSEL 8.1.0 Build farm lionfish (3.1, gcc 3.3.4); corgi (3.1, gcc 3.3.4)  
Debian GNU/Linux PA-RISC 8.1.0 Build farm kingfisher (3.1, gcc 3.3.5)  
Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC 8.0.0 Noèl Köthe (), 2004-12-15 sid
Debian GNU/Linux S/390 7.4 Noèl Köthe (), 2003-10-25  
Debian GNU/Linux Sparc 8.1.0 Build farm dormouse (3.1, gcc 3.2.5; 64-bit)  
Debian GNU/Linux x86 8.0.0 Peter Eisentraut (), 2004-12-06 3.1 (sarge), kernel 2.6
Fedora AMD64 8.1.0 Build farm viper (FC3, gcc 3.4.2)  
Fedora x86 8.1.0 Build farm thrush (FC1, gcc 3.3.2)  
FreeBSD Alpha 7.4 Peter Eisentraut (), 2003-10-25 4.8
FreeBSD AMD64 8.1.0 Build farm platypus (5.2.1, gcc 3.3.3); dove (5.4, gcc 3.4.2)  
FreeBSD x86 8.1.0 Build farm octopus (4.11, gcc 2.95.4); flatworm (5.3, gcc 3.4.2); echidna (6, gcc 3.4.2); herring (6, Intel cc 7.1)  
Gentoo Linux AMD64 8.1.0 Build farm caribou (2.6.9, gcc 3.3.5)  
Gentoo Linux IA64 8.1.0 Build farm stoat (2.6, gcc 3.3)  
Gentoo Linux PowerPC 64 8.1.0 Build farm cobra (1.4.16, gcc 3.4.3)  
Gentoo Linux x86 8.0.0 Paul Bort (), 2004-12-07  
HP-UX IA64 8.1.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-10-15 11.23, gcc and cc; see doc/FAQ_HPUX
HP-UX PA-RISC 8.1.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-10-15 10.20 and 11.23, gcc and cc; see doc/FAQ_HPUX
IRIX MIPS 8.1.0 Kenneth Marshall (), 2005-11-04 6.5, cc only
Mac OS X PowerPC 8.1.0 Build farm tuna (10.4.2, gcc 4.0); cuckoo (10.3.9, gcc 3.3); wallaroo (10.3.8, gcc 3.3)  
Mandrake Linux x86 8.1.0 Build farm shrew (10.0, gcc 3.3.2)  
NetBSD arm32 7.4 Patrick Welche (), 2003-11-12 1.6ZE/acorn32
NetBSD m68k 8.1.0 Build farm osprey (2.0, gcc 3.3.3)  
NetBSD Sparc 7.4.1 Peter Eisentraut (), 2003-11-26 1.6.1, 32-bit
NetBSD x86 8.0.0 Build farm canary, snapshot 2004-12-06 03:30:00 1.6
OpenBSD Sparc 8.0.0 Chris Mair (), 2005-01-10 3.3
OpenBSD Sparc64 8.1.0 Build farm spoonbill (3.6, gcc 3.3.2) compiler bug affects contrib/seg
OpenBSD x86 8.0.0 Build farm emu, snapshot 2004-12-06 11:35:03 3.6
Red Hat Linux AMD64 8.1.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23 RHEL 4
Red Hat Linux IA64 8.1.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23 RHEL 4
Red Hat Linux PowerPC 8.1.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23 RHEL 4
Red Hat Linux PowerPC 64 8.1.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23 RHEL 4
Red Hat Linux S/390 8.1.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23 RHEL 4
Red Hat Linux S/390x 8.1.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23 RHEL 4
Red Hat Linux x86 8.1.0 Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23 RHEL 4
Slackware Linux x86 8.1.0 Sergey Koposov (), 2005-10-24 10.0
Solaris Sparc 8.1.0 Build farm buzzard (Solaris 10, gcc 3.3.2); Robert Lor (), 2005-11-04 (Solaris 9); Kenneth Marshall (), 2005-10-28 (Solaris 8, gcc 3.4.3) see doc/FAQ_Solaris
Solaris x86 8.1.0 Robert Lor (), 2005-11-04 (Solaris 10) see doc/FAQ_Solaris
SUSE Linux AMD64 8.1.0 Josh Berkus (), 2005-10-23 SLES 9.3
SUSE Linux IA64 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux PowerPC 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux PowerPC 64 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux S/390 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux S/390x 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 SLES 9
SUSE Linux x86 8.0.0 Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, SLES 9
Tru64 UNIX Alpha 8.1.0 Honda Shigehiro (), 2005-11-01 5.0, cc 6.1-011
UnixWare x86 8.1.0 Build farm firefly (7.1.4, cc 4.2) see doc/FAQ_SCO
Windows x86 8.1.0 Build farm loris (XP Pro, gcc 3.2.3); snake (Windows Server 2003, gcc 3.4.2) see doc/FAQ_MINGW
Windows with Cygwin x86 8.1.0 Build farm ferret (XP Pro, gcc 3.3.3) see doc/FAQ_CYGWIN
Yellow Dog Linux PowerPC 8.1.0 Build farm carp (4.0, gcc 3.3.3)  

Unsupported Platforms: The following platforms are either known not to work, or they used to work in a fairly distant previous release. We include these here to let you know that these platforms could be supported if given some attention.

OS Processor Version Reported Remarks
BeOS x86 7.2 Cyril Velter (), 2001-11-29 needs updates to semaphore code
Linux PlayStation 2 8.0.0 Chris Mair (), 2005-01-09 requires --disable-spinlocks (works, but slow)
NetBSD Alpha 7.2 Thomas Thai (), 2001-11-20 1.5W
NetBSD MIPS 7.2.1 Warwick Hunter (), 2002-06-13 1.5.3
NetBSD PowerPC 7.2 Bill Studenmund (), 2001-11-28 1.5
NetBSD VAX 7.1 Tom I. Helbekkmo (), 2001-03-30 1.5
QNX 4 RTOS x86 7.2 Bernd Tegge (), 2001-12-10 needs updates to semaphore code; see also doc/FAQ_QNX4
QNX RTOS v6 x86 7.2 Igor Kovalenko (), 2001-11-20 patches available in archives, but too late for 7.2
SCO OpenServer x86 7.3.1 Shibashish Satpathy (), 2002-12-11 5.0.4, gcc; see also doc/FAQ_SCO
SunOS 4 Sparc 7.2 Tatsuo Ishii (), 2001-12-04