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Re: AIX support - alignment issues

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

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From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-07-10T23:56:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 11:38 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> WFM.  I also wonder if in
>
> +   <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> can be expected to work on current
> +   versions of these operating systems: Linux (all recent distributions), Windows,
> +   FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, macOS, AIX, Solaris, and illumos.
>
> we could drop "(all recent distributions)", figuring that "current
> versions" covers that already.  Other than that niggle, this
> looks good to me.

Yeah.  I wasn't too sure if that was mostly about "recent" or mostly
about "all distributions" but it wasn't doing much.  Thanks, pushed.

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