Re: buildfarm breakage - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: buildfarm breakage
Date
Msg-id 201002161705.o1GH5g405681@momjian.us
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In response to Re: buildfarm breakage  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
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Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan p??e v po 08. 02. 2010 v 20:07 -0500:
> 
> > 
> > Our Solaris *moth members seem to have stopped building. Have we lost them?
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> The answer is not simple. Yes, we lost Solaris 8 and 9 machines which
> was reinstalled and now they are used for different purpose. It was
> planned before the April and I announced it long time ago. It
> unfortunately happed and timing looks strange. And I did not find
> replacement.
> 
> I have replacement for nevada/x86 machine already, but I need to setup
> it which is one item in my very long TODO list :(. Solaris 10 Sparc/x86
> and nevada sparc are covered at this moment.

I think we have to accept the inevitable result that Postgres support on
Solaris is going to diminish over time.  We certainly are going to get
less support from Sun/Oracle, and one day the use of Postgres might even
be obstructed on Solaris or void software support contracts.

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