Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oAgVS-0004gx-8d for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 23:38:30 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oAgVP-0007mg-Mo for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 23:38:27 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oAgVP-0007mX-Dr for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 23:38:27 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oAgVN-0000Xt-Dn for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 23:38:26 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 26ANcJBm825103; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:38:19 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Thomas Munro cc: Peter Eisentraut , Peter Geoghegan , Andres Freund , Noah Misch , Robert Haas , PostgreSQL Hackers Subject: Re: AIX support - alignment issues In-reply-to: References: <20220702183354.a6uhja35wta7agew@alap3.anarazel.de> <968410.1656789743@sss.pgh.pa.us> <977853.1656794075@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1415825.1656893299@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1827177.1656996797@sss.pgh.pa.us> <7890936c-392b-91be-edac-b6d5a500e4b9@enterprisedb.com> <3192764.1657254276@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Thomas Munro message dated "Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:19:18 +1200" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <825101.1657496299.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:38:19 -0400 Message-ID: <825102.1657496299@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Thomas Munro writes: > OK, I word-smothe thusly: > + and PA-RISC, including > + big-endian, little-endian, 32-bit, and 64-bit variants where applica= ble. WFM. I also wonder if in + PostgreSQL can be expected to work on curre= nt + versions of these operating systems: Linux (all recent distributions),= Windows, + FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, macOS, AIX, Solaris, and illum= os. we could drop "(all recent distributions)", figuring that "current versions" covers that already. Other than that niggle, this looks good to me. regards, tom lane