Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 11:16:28AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hence, the attached removes the remaining support for HPPA.
> I wouldn't do this. NetBSD/hppa still claims to exist, as does the OpenBSD > equivalent. I presume its pkgsrc compiles this code. The code is basically > zero-maintenance, so there's not much to gain from deleting it preemptively. I doubt it: I don't think anyone is routinely building very much of pkgsrc for backwater hardware like HPPA, on either distro. It takes too much time (as cross-build doesn't work IME) and there are too few potential users. I certainly had to build all my own packages during my experiments with running those systems on my machine. Moreover, if they are compiling it they aren't testing it. I filed a pile of bugs against NetBSD kernel and toolchains on the way to getting the late lamented chickadee animal running. While it was pretty much working when I retired chickadee, it was obviously ground that nobody else had trodden in a long time. As for OpenBSD, while I did have a working installation of 6.4 at one time, I completely failed to get 7.1 running on that hardware. I think it's maintained only for very small values of "maintained". Lastly, even when they're working those systems are about half the speed of HP-UX on the same hardware; and even when using HP-UX there is no HPPA hardware that's not insanely slow by modern standards. I can't believe that anyone would want to run modern PG on that stack, and I don't believe that anyone but me has tried in a long time. regards, tom lane