Re: AIX support

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Srirama Kucherlapati <sriram.rk@in.ibm.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com" <postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "tvk1271@gmail.com" <tvk1271@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Date: 2024-12-30T09:39:37Z

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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

Hi,

On December 30, 2024 10:29:53 AM GMT+01:00, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>On 25.12.24 11:22, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Thanks for the links. It's disappointing there isn't a standard way to do this. It's nice to see the comments in cpython's makeexp_aix script explaining the "hidden tricks". I'd love to see similar comments in mkldexport.sh explaining what it does. And also why the script is needed on AIX in the first place.
>> 
>> I wonder if meson's AIX support would have something built-in to do this?
>
>Meson appears to have AIX support, so it's worth trying out.  If it's working, then it would also be worth considering a meson-only AIX port, which might be much simpler.  Conversely, if it doesn't work at all, it would need to be fixed.  I don't think we'd want to accept a new port that doesn't work with meson.

Before the removal PG passed tests on AIX, when built with meson. IIRC it shared the annoying symbol handling script with autoconf though. 

Andres
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