Re: removing old ports and architectures

Just to be pedantic, commit message shows
"support for Tru64 ended in 201."

I think you mean 2012.

On 18/10/2013 13:41, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> On 10/17/13 12:45 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> The attached patch, which I propose to apply relatively soon if nobody
>>> objects, removes the IRIX port.
>>
>> +1
>
>Done. And here's a patch for removing the alpha architecture and
>Tru64 UNIX (aka OSF/1) which runs on that architecture, per discussion
>upthread. Barring objections, I'll apply this next week.
>
>On a related note, I think we should update the paragaraph in
>installation.sgml that begins "In general, PostgreSQL can be expected
>to work on these CPU architectures". Any architecture that doesn't
>have a buildfarm animal should be relegated to the second sentence,
>which reads "Code support exists for ... but these architectures are
>not known to have been tested recently." Similarly, I think the
>following paragraph should be revised so that only operating systems
>for which we have current buildfarm support are considered fully
>supported. Others should be relegated to a sentence later in the
>paragraph that says something like "code support exists but not tested
>recently" or "expected to work but not tested regularly".
>
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