On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 11:34 AM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Personally I think we should just drop AIX. The amount of effort to keep it > working is substantial due to being quite different from other unices ([2]), > the is > very outdated, the whole ecosystem is barely on lifesupport ([3]). And all of > that > for very little real world use.
I tend to agree about dropping AIX. But I wonder if there is an argument against that proposal that doesn't rely on AIX being relevant to at least one user. Has supporting AIX ever led to the discovery of a bug that didn't just affect AIX? In other words, are AIX systems peculiar in some particular way that clearly makes them more likely to flush out a certain class of bugs? What is the best argument *against* desupporting AIX that you know of? Desupporting AIX doesn't mean that any AIX users will be left in the lurch immediately. Obviously these users will be able to use a supported version of Postgres for several more years. -- Peter Geoghegan
