On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 03:12 CEST, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> However, we don't know of anyone who has tried to do this in a very > >> long time, and are therefore considering removing the remaining > >> support for the VAX platform. Has anyone tried to build PostgreSQL > >> for VAX lately? > > > > Actually I tried a while ago but got stuck configuring the network on > > simh so I could get all the tools. I can try again if there's interest > > but we don't necessarily need to keep a port just because there's a > > simulator for it. > > That's really up to you. I'm not particularly interested in > generating interest in maintaining this port if there wouldn't > otherwise be any; I'm trying to figure out whether there is existing > interest in it. For all I know, <whatever>BSD is shipping PostgreSQL > binaries for VAX and every other platform they support in each new > release and people are using them to get real work done. Then again, > for all I know, it doesn't even compile on that platform, and if you > did manage to get it to compile it wouldn't fit on the disk, and if > you managed to fit it on the disk it wouldn't work because key system > calls aren't supported. If someone is still interested in this, I'm > hoping they'll help us figure out whether it's anywhere close to > working, and maybe even contribute a buildfarm critter. If no one > cares, then let's just rip it out and be done with it. > I'm building the vax packages for openbsd. What I can tell is that for 5.5 no postgresql packages were built. But that may be that due to the recent upgrade from gcc 2.95 to 3.3. I guess that not all dependencies to actually build postgresql are available for the vax, or may build successfully there. But I need to verify. Might need a few days, since I'm currently on vacation, with sparse Internet connectivity. ;) Sebastian > -- > Robert Haas > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
