Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 6:49 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> SuperH might be twitching a bit less feebly than these three, >> but it seems to be a legacy architecture as well. Not much >> has happened there since the early 2000's AFAICS.
> It looks like there's an sh3el package for PostgreSQL on NetBSD here, > so whoever maintains that might be in touch: > https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/databases/postgresql14-server/index.html Hm. For a moment there I was feeling bad about recommending cutting off a platform somebody still pays attention to ... but looking at the relevant NetBSD mailing list archives makes it look like that port is pretty darn moribund. > It's funny to think that you probably could run modern PostgreSQL on > the Sun 3 boxes the project started on in 1986 (based on clues from > the papers in our history section) if you put NetBSD on them, but > you'd probably need to cross compile due to lack of RAM. Yeah. I'm wondering if that sh3el package was cross-compiled, and if so whether it was just part of a mass package build rather than something somebody was specifically interested in. You'd have to be a glutton for pain to want to do actual work with PG on the kind of SH3 hardware that seems to be available. regards, tom lane
