Re: AIX support

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

To: Sriram RK <sriram.rk@outlook.com>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, "tvk1271@gmail.com" <tvk1271@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

Date: 2024-05-15T15:52:41Z

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Restore AIX support.
- 4a1b05caa55d 19 (unreleased) landed
pg_createsubscriber: Improve error messages.
- 898c131b58a0 18.0 cited
Use <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> for c.h integers.
- 962da900ac8f 18.0 cited
Stabilize jsonb_path_query test case.
- af2115226831 18.0 cited
Fix C23 compiler warning
- d2b4b4c2259e 18.0 cited
pg_stat_statements: Add tests for nested queries with level tracking
- 45e0ba30fc40 18.0 cited
Add missing newline at the end of index_including.sql
- 54b69f1bd730 17.0 cited
Remove AIX support
- 0b16bb8776bb 17.0 cited
Fix s_lock.h PPC assembly code to be compatible with native AIX assembler.
- c41a1215f049 9.6.0 cited
Use a non-locking initial test in TAS_SPIN on PPC.
- bc2a050d4097 9.2.0 cited
Use LWSYNC in place of SYNC/ISYNC in PPC spinlocks, where possible.
- 631beeac3598 9.2.0 cited
Use mutex hint bit in PPC LWARX instructions, where possible.
- 5cfa8dd3007d 9.2.0 cited
Adjust TAS assembly as per recent discussions: use "+m"(*lock) everywhere
- 109867748259 8.0.0 cited
Apple's assembler likes the inlined TAS syntax too, so no reason to
- f9ba0a7fe563 7.4.1 cited
Tighten up register usage for inline PPC version of tas().
- eb5e4c58d137 7.4.1 cited
Put the isync where it's supposed to be.
- cd35d601b859 7.4.1 cited
> > I'll re-check that with the ppc architecture guy here.
- ceb4f5ea9c2c 7.4.1 cited
Fix PPC s_lock operations to work correctly on multi-CPU machines.
- 7233aae50bea 7.3.1 cited
I tried to build PostgreSQL with the following step to see backends hung
- 50938576d482 7.3.1 cited
Complete merge of all old man page information.
- f2f43efbe1d5 7.1.1 cited
s_lock aix patch.
- e3b06a871b63 7.1.1 cited

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 03:33:25PM +0000, Sriram RK wrote:
> Hi Team, we have any updated from the XLC team, the issue specific to the alignment is fixed
> and XLC had released it as part of 16.1.0.18. The PTF is available at the below location,
> 
> You can also find a link here:
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/fix-list-xl-cc-aix.
> 
> >>/opt/IBM/xlC/16.1.0/bin/xlC align.c -o align.xl
> 
> >>./align.xl
> al4096                           4096 @ 0x20008000 (mod 0)
> al4096_initialized               4096 @ 0x20004000 (mod 0)
> al4096_const                     4096 @ 0x2000b000 (mod 0)
> al4096_const_initialized         4096 @ 0x10008000 (mod 0)
> al4096_static                    4096 @ 0x2000e000 (mod 0)
> al4096_static_initialized        4096 @ 0x20001000 (mod 0)
> al4096_static_const              4096 @ 0x20011000 (mod 0)
> al4096_static_const_initialized  4096 @ 0x10001000 (mod 0)

That is good news.  PGIOAlignedBlock is now in the IBM publication,
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IJ51032

> Also would like to know some info related to the request raised for buildfarm access, to register the node in OSU lab. Where can I get the status of the request? Whom can I contact to get the request approved? So that we can add the node to the buildfarm.

I assume you filled out the form at
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/register-form.pl?  It can take a few
weeks, so I wouldn't worry yet.