Re: AIX support

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Srirama Kucherlapati <sriram(dot)rk(at)in(dot)ibm(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Tristan Partin <tristan(at)partin(dot)io>, AIX PG user <postgres-ibm-aix(at)wwpdl(dot)vnet(dot)ibm(dot)com>
Subject: Re: AIX support
Date: 2026-01-29 01:36:37
Message-ID: 1129240.1769650597@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> I think the only way we could deal with this in a maintainable
> fashion would be to remove the assumption that int64 and double
> have the same alignment requirement. That is tech debt that
> we really should have cleaned up years ago anyway.

In hopes of moving this effort along, I've posted a draft patch
for that part here:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1127261.1769649624%40sss.pgh.pa.us

We are running out of time to make this happen for v19, so
I suggest focusing your effort if you don't want to see
AIX support slide for another year.

regards, tom lane

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