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From: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Burd <[email protected]>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Trying out <stdatomic.h>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:16:17 +1300
Message-ID: <CA+hUKGKm1rX9FXwoSrjSrtg=CUHbHW4Ezg+C+9RcR-9qeSSzfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Greg Burd" <[email protected]> writes:
> > I have another Illumos animal in the works, but if the plan is to deprecate 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.

Yeah, Solaris has caused comparatively little trouble, if you exclude
the defunct compiler and a build farm animal running a frozen zombie
Solaris version.  It's pretty easy for Linux users to understand
because of its huge influence on standards and conventions back in the
90s.  The buildfarm animals are maintained by people with a real
interest in PostgreSQL on both OSes, and both OSes fix bugs we report
and track POSIX actively.  We've run on SunOS/BSD and descendents for
coming up 40 (POSTGRES) or 30 (PostgreSQL) years, and I'm hoping we'll
even get to complete that Berkeley to-do item about using threads on
SunOS one of these days...  I just goofed when rebasing the v1 patch
and git rm-ed the template file instead of git add-ing it in v1, but I
fixed that in v2.

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