Re: Remove last traces of HPPA support

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Remove last traces of HPPA support
Date: 2023-10-21 06:22:43
Message-ID: 94A1B487-1F1C-4B09-B4B9-B1AA03BBED2A@anarazel.de
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Hi,

On October 20, 2023 11:18:19 PM PDT, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> It'd be one thing to continue supporting an almost-guaranteed-to-be-unused
>> platform, if we expected it to become more popular or complete enough to be
>> usable like e.g. risc-v a few years ago. But I doubt we'll find anybody out
>> there believing that there's a potential future upward trend for HPPA.
>
>Indeed. I would have bet that Postgres on HPPA was extinct in the wild,
>until I noticed this message a few days ago:
>
>https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/BYAPR02MB42624ED41C15BFA82DAE2C359BD5A%40BYAPR02MB4262.namprd02.prod.outlook.com
>
>But we already cut that user off at the knees by removing HP-UX support.

Not that it matters really, but I'd assume that was hpux on ia64, not hppa?

Greetings,

Andres
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