On 17.06.25 23:10, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> I'm not saying we shouldn't support compiling Postgres on these
> systems. But having Postgres compile with just the default system
> packages seems an unreasonably high bar. People running ancient
> systems like this should be comfortable enough with getting some more
> recent build dependencies. Recent meson and ninja executables are just
> a "pip install" away, even on RHEL8.
That's probably ok for developers, but then again, probably no one
develops PostgreSQL master on RHEL 8. But production RPM builds need to
be done "in system", with the build tools being provided by
vendor-supplied RPMs themselves, with all the signatures, attestations,
and all that stuff that comes with it nowadays.
