Hi, On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:57:31AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2024-02-29 09:13:04 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > The commit message says there is not a lot of user demand and that might > > be right, but contrary to other fringe OSes that got removed like HPPA > > or Irix, I believe Postgres on AIX is still used in production and if > > so, probably in a mission-critical manner at some old-school > > institutions (in fact, one of our customers does just that) and not as a > > thought-experiment. It is probably well-known among Postgres hackers > > that AIX support is problematic/a burden, but the current users might > > not be aware of this. > > Then these users should have paid somebody to actually do maintenance work on > the AIX support,o it doesn't regularly stand in the way of implementing > various things.
Right, absolutely. But: did we ever tell them to do that? I don't think it's reasonable for them to expect to follow -hackers and jump in when somebody grumbles about AIX being a burden somewhere deep down a thread... Michael
