Re: AIX support

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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

Cc: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, "postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com" <postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.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>, 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: 2025-04-03T13:54:00Z

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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 2025-04-03 13:45:01 +0000, Srirama Kucherlapati wrote:
> We are nearly ready to deliver the patch. Currently, we have compiled the
> source using Meson and are investigating one test case issue. Once we pinpoint
> the cause, we will send you the patch. Notably, this test case behaves
> differently on AIX, opting for a Bitmap Index Scan instead of an Index Scan.
> Not sure if this is really specific to AIX?
> 
>                 >> meson test
> 
> 396 Ok:                 81
> 397 Expected Fail:      0
> 398 Fail:               1  (regex)
> 399 Unexpected Pass:    0
> 400 Skipped:            219

FWIW, the skipped tests indicate that you are building without tap tests or
such - that means most of the testsuite is not run. That certainly is not good
enough.

Greetings,

Andres Freund