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To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: many animals are running old clients
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 06:58:31 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:32:30AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
> > > On 08/29/2018 10:35 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> > >> It's very far from a 5 minute job on ancient Solaris boxes :-(
> >
> > > Please let me know when issues like this arise.
> >
> > One thing of the same ilk is that a few months ago I had to give up on
> > using https reporting on gaur/pademelon, and switch back to http.
> > I don't think that was your fault, because it was not associated with a
> > buildfarm client upgrade. It appeared to me that the pginfra folk had
> > changed something to require newer TLS versions in https connections to
> > the buildfarm server. Like Dave, I spent a fair while trying to install
> > new-enough Perl modules to fix that, without a lot of success: newer
> > Perl code doesn't compile on that platform.
> >
> > It's debatable of course how much anyone cares about buildfarm animals
> > that are this old. I've already shut down pademelon since its compiler
> > never heard of C99, and I don't see much point in running it on just
> > the back branches.
> >
>
> Right - I do wonder that about this machine (whether it's worth supporting,
> not whether its compiler supports C99). Here's what we're talking about:
>
> -bash-3.00$ cat /etc/release
> Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC
> Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> Assembled 14 November 2006
The lack of any other Solaris animal makes it more valuable than its age alone
would imply.
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