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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:20:48 +0200
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Srirama Kucherlapati <sriram.rk@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>,
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	Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>,
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	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>,
	wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com>,
	"postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com" <postgres-ibm-aix@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: AIX support
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On 2025-Sep-03, Srirama Kucherlapati wrote:

> As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance AIX platform compatibility,
> we’ve been running the code across all stable PostgreSQL release
> branches using the build farm infrastructure. All test suites,
> including TAP tests, are passing consistently, indicating no
> regressions.

The buildfarm results you sent look good.  You should definitely be
testing branch master though rather than the stable ones, because it's
not clear to me, as Bruce said, that we would really backpatch AIX
support to stable branches.  (You're of course free to produce your own
packages from patched versions, in the interim).

I noticed that you add mkldexport.sh and that the makefiles use it.  I
wonder if that really is necessary with the current AIX tooling (it
looks an outdated gadget).

Also, I notice that Meson supports AIX starting from version 0.56; did
you verify whether it works to build this with that?

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Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/