| From: | Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove AIX Support (was: Re: Relation bulk write facility) |
| Date: | 2024-02-29 09:24:24 |
| Message-ID: | 65e04d48.df0a0220.136eb.411d@mx.google.com |
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Hi,
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:57:31AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2024-02-29 09:13:04 +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > The commit message says there is not a lot of user demand and that might
> > be right, but contrary to other fringe OSes that got removed like HPPA
> > or Irix, I believe Postgres on AIX is still used in production and if
> > so, probably in a mission-critical manner at some old-school
> > institutions (in fact, one of our customers does just that) and not as a
> > thought-experiment. It is probably well-known among Postgres hackers
> > that AIX support is problematic/a burden, but the current users might
> > not be aware of this.
>
> Then these users should have paid somebody to actually do maintenance work on
> the AIX support,o it doesn't regularly stand in the way of implementing
> various things.
Right, absolutely.
But: did we ever tell them to do that? I don't think it's reasonable for
them to expect to follow -hackers and jump in when somebody grumbles
about AIX being a burden somewhere deep down a thread...
Michael
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