Re: AIX support

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: AIX support
Date: 2026-02-04 15:18:50
Message-ID: 1451546.1770218330@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'd kinda want to see some evidence that this affects all machines
> rather than just this one. I mean, AIX may not be the most modern
> thing out there, so maybe it's not great at disk I/O, but these tests
> don't tell us whether it's the OS that sucks or the hardware.

True. My point is that the AIX hardware available to our community
is so slow as to make working on this patch quite unpleasant.
If what OSUOSL has is not representative of typical AIX installations,
why not, and could we have access to a machine that is?

regards, tom lane

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