Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > pademelon is a good example. I don't mind keeping that working if Tom > is willing to maintain it, but here's the thing: if a certain > portability "problem" only shows up on machines running 20-year-old > operating systems, how much of a problem is it, really?
For the record, I don't see keeping things working on gaur/pademelon as an end in itself. My feeling about that, as with prairiedog which is also a museum piece[1], is more like this: when we move the compatibility goalposts enough to break these old systems, we should know it and make a deliberate decision that it's OK and not worth working around. At which point I'll shut them down. But I don't want loss of old-system compatibility to happen blindly. I think the same is probably true for a number of other pretty-old critters in the buildfarm, for example coypu --- it seems unlikely that many people still run such an old release of NetBSD, but that doesn't mean we want to break it unintentionally. > ... we can't > realistically maintain ports to systems to which none of us have > access, and we can maintain ports to systems to which only a few of us > have access only if those people are willing to be fairly involved in > fixing any non-trivial issues that pop up. Sure, I think that comes with the territory of being a buildfarm owner. regards, tom lane [1] Literally. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/82134 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers