From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Greg Burd" <greg@burd.me>
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"Greg Burd" <greg@burd.me> writes:
> I have another Illumos animal in the works, but if the plan is to deprec=
ate that platform I can set that aside.  As an old Sun engineer I hate to =
see it disappear, but it is basically EOL at this point.

I think we can keep it going as long as there are people interested
in it.  The gating factor at present is probably whether it can
provide an adequate C11 environment.  But so far I've observed no
issues with the existing BF members.

			regards, tom lane