Re: Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86

William Yu <wyu@talisys.com>

From: William Yu <wyu@talisys.com>
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-19T20:24:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I have used Postgres on Solaris x86 7, 8 and 9. Haven't tested Solaris 
10 but it probably would work. In fact, I've tarballed /usr/local 
directories from Sol7, moved then to Sol8/9 machines and the software 
worked without recompilation.


> Justin Clift wrote:
> 
>> Hi Christopher,
>>
>> Personally, I haven't tested it on Solaris 9 INTEL yet (Sun took some 
>> decent time in getting the Sol9 x86 kit to me, and I'm busy developing 
>> OpenOffice training for now).
>>
>> I'd be very surprised if PostgreSQL doesn't work on Solaris x86, as it 
>> *used* to work on Solaris x86 from versions 2.6 -> 8.
 >>
>> Christoper Smiga wrote:
>>
>>> All:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if there is going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in 
>>> the near future. What is the decission to develop on this platform 
>>> since Sun is pushing Solaris x86 harder than ever.