On 01/22/2018 04:16 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > > > I'll be quite happy to retire the XP machine running brolga, currawong > and frogmouth, if that's the consensus. XP is now long out of support. > OTOH I have personal experience of it running in many potentially > critical situations, still (hospitals, for example). > > > But do they really run PostgreSQL 11 (or 10..) on that? In my > experience they usually run an old business application on it only. > That is a problem in itself of course, but that is not our problem in > this case :) > > > > I can, if people > want, keep the machine running just building the back branches. > > > That's what I suggest we do. Removing the builds of back branches > would be the equivalent of de-supporting it on a still supported > branch, and I don't like that idea. But removing the master branch > means we desupport in 11, which I think is the right thing to do.
OK, I have left the machine running but these three animals will no longer build 11, only the back branches. > > > > > I should probably look at setting up a modern 32-bit replacement (say > Windows 10 Pro-32). > > > Unless we want to desupport 32-bit Windows completely. But unless we > have an actual reason to do so, I think we shouldn't. So yeah if you > can get a box like that up and running, that'd be much welcome. It's probably going to have to wait a couple of months, and at least a couple of weeks. It's worth noting that the last Windows Server edition that supported 342bit architectures was WS2008. That's quite old now. I wonder how long they will continue to support it in the consumer-grade Windows versions. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
