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From: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up historical portability baggage
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 17:40:50 +0200
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Hi,

On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 10:25:23AM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> I think our policy basically is that if it doesn't exist on the BF, it's
> unsupported. Also note that Hurd is not listed as a supported OS:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/supported-platforms.html
> 
> We can't design for OS that we don't know it's used with postgres and/or how
> that OS works / what it supports.
> 
> So I reject the premise that this is a regression.

Fair enough. I'll see whether I can get a BF animal going for it at some
point.


Michael





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