Re: AIX support

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Srirama Kucherlapati <sriram.rk@in.ibm.com>

Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com" <postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, 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>, Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>

Date: 2025-03-07T16:20:14Z

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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 Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM Srirama Kucherlapati
<sriram.rk@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> Our team has identified couple of issues with the meson build on AIX, primarily focusing on the following areas:
>
> Symbol extraction and resolution in object files during binary creation.
> Dynamic runtime library path resolution in shared libraries.
>
> We have resolved them and we plan to submit these fixes to the meson community shortly.

Nice!

-- 
Robert Haas
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