> On Nov 15, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Mark Dilger <hornschnor...@gmail.com> writes: >>> On Nov 15, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> The stuff in contrib/start-scripts/osx/ does not, as far as I know, >>> work at all on any recent release of macOS, because SystemStarter >>> is long gone. I propose replacing it with the attached, which >>> I've tested on current-vintage Macs. > >> Overall, I think supporting 10.10 and greater is more relevant than >> continuing >> to support 10.4 and earlier, though I suppose someone could argue for >> keeping both in side-by-side files with the README directing users which to >> use for whichever version of OS X they happen to be running. It's of no >> consequence to me, since my oldest mac is running 10.6.8, but somebody >> from the museum of old macs might feel differently. > > Well, we have no buildfarm coverage before 10.4, so to my mind those > releases are desupported already. In practice I wonder whether anyone > is really running PG on such old releases anyway. Certainly I wouldn't > think they'd be making new PG installations on machines that old.
I have tested this on 10.11.6. I had no trouble following the instructions in the README and everything worked as described. As far as I can tell, this patch has not yet been submitted to any commitfest. I would mark it Read for Committer. mark
