Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3C8632AF8 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 10:51:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12145-01 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 13:51:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C3D6328B9 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 10:51:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o71DpRRs004313; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 09:51:27 -0400 (EDT) To: wstrzalka cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL on Solaris future In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to wstrzalka message dated "Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:35:05 -0700" Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:51:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4312.1280670687@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201008/2 X-Sequence-Number: 35251 wstrzalka writes: > As I know Solaris packages were maintained by Sun but I'm not sure > about the future after recent buildfarm problems. > Does the community plans to maintain Solaris packages or it will be > Oracle dependent? When and if Bjorn stops building packages, we'll look for a replacement. Presumably somebody will be willing to do it, unless Oracle has managed to drive open source users away from Solaris completely by then. regards, tom lane