Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> writes:
>>
>>> Maybe it would be good enough to state that AIX is only supported with
>>> certain fixpacks installed? And do without all the AIX hacks?
>>>
>> That would definitely be a good-enough solution in my opinion,
>> as long as we can document which fixes are needed for which releases.
>>
>
> my take is to go with Albe's solution. I'm downloading the cumulative
> fixpack for 4.3.3:
>
> http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/aix433fixes/ml11package.html
>
> If the above fixes the problem with the aix hacks removed, problem
> solved. If it doesn't, then let's face the music and formally drop
> support for aix 4.3 for 8.4. (and, other than that, do nothing).
>
You mean nothing other than removing the AIX hacks?
(I'm with Tom. This has been a constant annoyance over quite a few years.)
cheers
andrew