Re: Roadmap for Postgres on AIX

Wasim Arif <wasimarif(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> What is the road map for Postgres on the AIX platform? I understand that
> the pg build farm contains an AIX 5.3 server; are there any plans to
> upgrade to 6.1 and 7.1?

The reason there's an AIX 5.3 buildfarm member is that someone cares
enough about preserving portability to that platform to provide a
buildfarm member. If you're worried about other AIX releases, I suggest
you do likewise. It's not a huge burden. Basic info about it is here:
http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/register-form.pl

By and large, our approach to AIX is the same as to any other platform:
we'll support it as long as users of the platform provide testing and
any necessary portability fixes. That burden might fall more directly
on you, as one of a relatively small number of users, than it would on
somebody using say Linux or BSD. But as long as you are willing to do
some of the work you need not fear that we're planning to abandon you.

(FWIW, I believe there was a more-recent AIX version in the buildfarm
till recently. Don't know why its owner stopped running it.)

regards, tom lane