Thanks for the detailed and quick response guys. -Wasim.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Wasim Arif <wasima...@gmail.com> writes: > > What is the road map for Postgres on the AIX platform? I understand that > > the pg build farm contains an AIX 5.3 server; are there any plans to > > upgrade to 6.1 and 7.1? > > The reason there's an AIX 5.3 buildfarm member is that someone cares > enough about preserving portability to that platform to provide a > buildfarm member. If you're worried about other AIX releases, I suggest > you do likewise. It's not a huge burden. Basic info about it is here: > http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/register-form.pl > > By and large, our approach to AIX is the same as to any other platform: > we'll support it as long as users of the platform provide testing and > any necessary portability fixes. That burden might fall more directly > on you, as one of a relatively small number of users, than it would on > somebody using say Linux or BSD. But as long as you are willing to do > some of the work you need not fear that we're planning to abandon you. > > (FWIW, I believe there was a more-recent AIX version in the buildfarm > till recently. Don't know why its owner stopped running it.) > > regards, tom lane >
