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Re: AIX support - alignment issues

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-07-04T00:35:02Z
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Hi,

On 2022-07-04 10:33:37 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I don't have a dog in this race, but AIX is clearly not in the same
> category as HP-UX (and maybe Solaris is somewhere in between).

The reason to consider whether it's worth supporting AIX is that it's library
model is very different from other unix like platforms (much closer to windows
though). We also have dedicated compiler support for it, which I guess could
separately be dropped.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Doc: Acknowledge historically supported CPUs and OSes.

  2. Further tidy-up for old CPU architectures.

  3. Tidy up claimed supported CPUs and OSes.

  4. Remove HP/Intel Itanium support.

  5. Remove HP-UX port.

  6. Reorder subskiplsn in pg_subscription to avoid alignment issues.

  7. Tighten TAP tests' tracking of postmaster state some more.

  8. Reorder pg_sequence columns to avoid alignment issue