On 06/28/2015 12:29 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> It might have been the right decision at the time to paper over the
> problem, but only for a year or two. I'd only favor adding defenses if
> it could be expected to take longer for the Solaris stdlib people to
> ship a fix for their egregious bug than it would take for the next
> Postgres point release. Why should that be true, though?
BTW, I've asked Joyent to test on their platform.
My perspective is that if both SmartOS and OmniOS pass, it's not our
responsibility to support OldSolaris if they won't update libraries.
However, OpenSCG and EDB support more OldSolaris customers than anyone,
AFAIK, so I'd like to her some opinions from them ...
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