Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
>> On 2/27/17 4:52 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:
>>> By the way, that page claims that PostgreSQL runs on Irix and Tru64,
>>> which hasn't been true for a few years.

>> There could be a GSoC project to add support for those back in... ;P

> ...  Whether it's also
> useful to try to support running the system on unobtainable operating
> systems is less clear to me.

I seriously doubt that we'd take patches to run on non-mainstream OSes
without a concomitant promise to support buildfarm animals running such
OSes for the foreseeable future.  Without that we don't know if the
patches still work even a week after they're committed.  We killed the
above-mentioned OSes mainly for lack of any such animals, IIRC.
        regards, tom lane