Hi, On 2023-10-19 10:38:14 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 7:33 PM Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote: > > I feel the gravity and longevity of xlc bugs has been out of proportion with > > the compiler's contribution to PostgreSQL. I would find it reasonable to > > revoke xlc support in v17+, leaving AIX gcc support in place. > > +1 for this proposal. I just think this is getting silly. We're saying > that we only have access to 1 or 2 AIX machines, and most of us have > access to none, and the compiler has serious code generation bugs that > are present in both a release 11 years old and also a release current > release, meaning they went unfixed for 10 years, and we can't report > bugs or get them fixed when we find them, and the use of this > particular compiler in the buildfarm isn't finding any issues that > matter anywhere else.
+1. > To be honest, I'm not entirely sure that even AIX gcc support is > delivering enough value per unit work to justify keeping it around. > But the xlc situation is worse. Agreed with both. If it were just a platform that didn't need special casing in a bunch of places, it'd be one thing, but it's linkage model is so odd that it makes no sense to keep AIX support around. But I'll take what I can get... Greetings, Andres Freund
