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Re: Proposal: Removing 32 bit support starting from PG17++

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, tomas.vondra@postgresql.org, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Hans Buschmann <buschmann@nidsa.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-25T01:04:12Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2023-05-24 19:51:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So dropping PA-RISC altogether should probably happen for v17, maybe even
>> v16.

> Definitely for 17 - not sure if we have much to gain by doing it in 16.

I'm just thinking that we'll have no way to test it.  I wouldn't advocate
such a change in released branches; but I think it'd be within policy
still for v16, and that would give us one less year of claimed support
for an arch we can't test.

			regards, tom lane