From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: Updated macOS start scripts
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:00:33 -0500
Message-ID: <21689.1510772433@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Nov 15, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> The stuff in contrib/start-scripts/osx/ does not, as far as I know,
>> work at all on any recent release of macOS, because SystemStarter
>> is long gone. I propose replacing it with the attached, which
>> I've tested on current-vintage Macs.
> Overall, I think supporting 10.10 and greater is more relevant than continuing
> to support 10.4 and earlier, though I suppose someone could argue for
> keeping both in side-by-side files with the README directing users which to
> use for whichever version of OS X they happen to be running. It's of no
> consequence to me, since my oldest mac is running 10.6.8, but somebody
> from the museum of old macs might feel differently.
Well, we have no buildfarm coverage before 10.4, so to my mind those
releases are desupported already. In practice I wonder whether anyone
is really running PG on such old releases anyway. Certainly I wouldn't
think they'd be making new PG installations on machines that old.
regards, tom lane
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