On 10/16/2013 07:04 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> I think we should remove support the following ports: >> - IRIX >> - UnixWare >> - Tru64 > > According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX, IRIX has been > officially retired. The last release of IRIX was in 2006 and support > will end in December of 2013. Therefore, it will be unsupported by > the time PostgreSQL 9.4 is released. > > According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnixWare, UnixWare is not > dead, although there have been no new releases in 5 years. > > According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIX, Tru64 has been > officially retired. Support ended in December, 2012. This seems safe > to remove. > > So I vote for removing IRIX and Tru64 immediately, but I'm a little > more hesitant about shooting UnixWare, since it's technically still > supported. > >> Neither of those are relevant.
agreed >> >> I think we should remove support for the following architectures: >> - VAX > > According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX#History, all > manufacturing of VAX computers ceased in 2005, but according to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS#Major_release_timeline, OpenVMS > is still releasing new versions. I'm not sure what to make of that. VAX is also an officially supported OpenBSD port (see http://www.openbsd.org/vax.html) Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
