From: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: Updated macOS start scripts
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:02:16 -0800
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> On Nov 15, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> 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.
I have tested this on 10.11.6. I had no trouble following the instructions
in the README and everything worked as described.
As far as I can tell, this patch has not yet been submitted to any commitfest.
I would mark it Read for Committer.
mark
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