Re: AIX support

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

To: 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>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "tvk1271@gmail.com" <tvk1271@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Date: 2024-12-30T09:29:53Z

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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 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.