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From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 11:32:30 +0100
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Subject: Re: many animals are running old clients
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>,
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> 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
-bash-3.00$ prtconf -b
name:  SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
model:  SUNW,501-6230
banner-name:  SUNW,Sun-Blade-2000 (2 X UltraSPARC-III+)

-- 
Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div c=
lass=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Tom Lane <span dir=
=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us" target=3D"_blank">tgl@sss=
.pgh.pa.us</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=
=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding=
-left:1ex"><span class=3D"gmail-">Andrew Dunstan &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:andr=
ew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com">andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.<wbr>com</a>&gt; wri=
tes:<br>
&gt; On 08/29/2018 10:35 AM, Dave Page wrote:<br>
</span><span class=3D"gmail-">&gt;&gt; It&#39;s very far from a 5 minute jo=
b on ancient Solaris boxes :-(<br>
<br>
</span><span class=3D"gmail-">&gt; Please let me know when issues like this=
 arise.<br>
<br>
</span>One thing of the same ilk is that a few months ago I had to give up =
on<br>
using https reporting on gaur/pademelon, and switch back to http.<br>
I don&#39;t think that was your fault, because it was not associated with a=
<br>
buildfarm client upgrade.=C2=A0 It appeared to me that the pginfra folk had=
<br>
changed something to require newer TLS versions in https connections to<br>
the buildfarm server.=C2=A0 Like Dave, I spent a fair while trying to insta=
ll<br>
new-enough Perl modules to fix that, without a lot of success: newer<br>
Perl code doesn&#39;t compile on that platform.<br>
<br>
It&#39;s debatable of course how much anyone cares about buildfarm animals<=
br>
that are this old.=C2=A0 I&#39;ve already shut down pademelon since its com=
piler<br>
never heard of C99, and I don&#39;t see much point in running it on just<br=
>
the back branches.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right - I do wonder =
that about this machine (whether it&#39;s worth supporting, not whether its=
 compiler supports C99). Here&#39;s what we&#39;re talking about:</div><div=
><br></div><div><div>-bash-3.00$ cat /etc/release</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Solari=
s 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=
 =C2=A0Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.=C2=A0 All Rights Reserved.</di=
v><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Use is subject to license terms.</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0Assembled 14 November 2006</div><div>-bash-3.00$ prtconf -b</div>=
<div>name:=C2=A0 SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000</div><div>model:=C2=A0 SUNW,501-6230</=
div><div>banner-name:=C2=A0 SUNW,Sun-Blade-2000 (2 X UltraSPARC-III+)</div>=
</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class=3D"gmail_signature">Dave Page<=
br>Blog: <a href=3D"http://pgsnake.blogspot.com" target=3D"_blank">http://p=
gsnake.blogspot.com</a><br>Twitter: @pgsnake<br><br>EnterpriseDB UK: <a hre=
f=3D"http://www.enterprisedb.com" target=3D"_blank">http://www.enterprisedb=
.com</a><br>The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company<br></div>
</div></div></div>

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