From: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: AIX support - alignment issues |
Date: | 2022-07-11 22:13:58 |
Message-ID: | CA+hUKG+WL9jRooN+V_33ARJb=OLdNvgEkT3uixR2RsQJWOWbkw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:24 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > It's funny to think that you probably could run modern PostgreSQL on
> > the Sun 3 boxes the project started on in 1986 (based on clues from
> > the papers in our history section) if you put NetBSD on them, but
> > you'd probably need to cross compile due to lack of RAM.
>
> Yeah. I'm wondering if that sh3el package was cross-compiled,
> and if so whether it was just part of a mass package build rather
> than something somebody was specifically interested in. You'd
> have to be a glutton for pain to want to do actual work with PG
> on the kind of SH3 hardware that seems to be available.
/me pictures Stark wheeling a real Sun 3 into a conference room
Yeah, we can always consider putting SuperH back if someone showed up
to maintain/test it. That seems unlikely, but apparently there's an
open source silicon project based on this ISA, so maybe a fast one
isn't impossible...
Here's a patch to remove all of these.
I didn't originally suggest that because of some kind of (mostly
vicarious) nostalgia. I wonder if we should allow ourselves a
paragraph where we remember these systems. I personally think it's
one of the amazing things about this project. Here's what I came up
with, but I'm sure there are more.
Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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0001-Further-tidy-up-for-supported-CPUs.patch | text/x-patch | 6.1 KB |
0002-Doc-Acknowledge-historically-supported-CPUs-and-OSes.patch | text/x-patch | 1.3 KB |
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