On 17.06.25 23:10, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
I'm not saying we shouldn't support compiling Postgres on these systems. But having Postgres compile with just the default system packages seems an unreasonably high bar. People running ancient systems like this should be comfortable enough with getting some more recent build dependencies. Recent meson and ninja executables are just a "pip install" away, even on RHEL8.
That's probably ok for developers, but then again, probably no one develops PostgreSQL master on RHEL 8. But production RPM builds need to be done "in system", with the build tools being provided by vendor-supplied RPMs themselves, with all the signatures, attestations, and all that stuff that comes with it nowadays.
