Final call for platform testing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> > mklinux has failed Tatsuo's testing afaicr. Demote to unsupported?
> Yes. But you'd better to change mklinux -> MkLinux DR1.  There may be
> a chance that latest MkLinux or gcc successfully runs 7.1...

OK. So we are close to a final tally of supported machines. The
"unsupported machines" are listed at the end, and those include QNX and
Ultrix, which both may end up supported in the very near future. I've
left NetBSD/m68k and NetBSD/Sparc on the supported list since we have no
reason to think that they *won't* work for 7.1, but they may get bumped
to unsupported if we do not have maintainers with access to working
machines. That will be especially problematic for the m68k-based
machines, since they are no longer in (large scale) production.

I may not have correct info for SCO OpenServer. Can someone verify that
7.1 works on this platform? With the UDK compiler set, it *should* be
identical wrt support to UnixWare with the same compiler set, right? If
we don't get testing done, I'll revert the description to that for 7.0,
but leave it as a supported platform.

Since Windows (not NT) is supported on the client side only, should I
move it to "unsupported"? I think I will, but leave the comments that
clients have been tested.

If the scorecard does not change, we are on 29 distinct platforms, the
largest number we have *ever* been qualified on. And simultaneously for
all on the day of release, which is simply not done in the closed source
world.

Thanks to everyone for the great support on porting and testing!
                      - Thomas

Here are the up-to-date platforms:

AIX 4.3.3 RS6000   7.1 2001-03-21, Gilles Darold
BeOS 5.0.4 x86     7.1 2000-12-18, Cyril Velter
BSDI 4.01  x86     7.1 2001-03-19, Bruce Momjian
Compaq Tru64 4.0g Alpha 7.1 2001-03-19, Brent Verner
FreeBSD 4.3 x86    7.1 2001-03-19, Vince Vielhaber
HPUX PA-RISC       7.1 2001-03-19, 10.20 Tom Lane, 11.00 Giles Lean
IRIX 6.5.11 MIPS   7.1 2001-03-22, Robert Bruccoleri
Linux 2.2.x Alpha  7.1 2001-01-23, Ryan Kirkpatrick
Linux 2.2.x armv4l 7.1 2001-03-22, Mark Knox
Linux 2.0.x MIPS   7.1 2001-03-30, Dominic Eidson
Linux 2.2.18 PPC74xx 7.1 2001-03-19, Tom Lane
Linux 2.2.x S/390  7.1 2000-11-17, Neale Ferguson
Linux 2.2.15 Sparc 7.1 2001-01-30, Ryan Kirkpatrick
Linux 2.2.16 x86   7.1 2001-03-19, Thomas Lockhart
MacOS X Darwin PPC 7.1 2000-12-11, Peter Bierman
NetBSD 1.5 Alpha   7.1 2001-03-22, Giles Lean
NetBSD 1.5E arm32  7.1 2001-03-21, Patrick Welche
NetBSD m68k        7.0 2000-04-10 (Henry has lost machine)
NetBSD Sparc       7.0 2000-04-13, Tom I. Helbekkmo
NetBSD VAX         7.1 2001-03-30, Tom I. Helbekkmo
NetBSD 1.5 x86     7.1 2001-03-23, Giles Lean
OpenBSD 2.8 Sparc  7.1 2001-03-23, Brandon Palmer
OpenBSD 2.8 x86    7.1 2001-03-22, Brandon Palmer
SCO OpenServer 5 x86   7.1 2001-03-13, Billy Allie
SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 x86 7.1 2001-03-19, Larry Rosenman
Solaris 2.7-8 Sparc    7.1 2001-03-22, Marc Fournier
Solaris x86        7.1 2001-03-27, Mathijs Brands
SunOS 4.1.4 Sparc  7.1 2001-03-23, Tatsuo Ishii
WinNT/Cygwin x86   7.1 2001-03-16, Jason Tishler

And the "unsupported platforms":

DGUX m88k
MkLinux DR1 PPC750 7.0 2000-04-13, Tatsuo Ishii
NextStep x86
QNX 4.25 x86       7.0 2000-04-01, Dr. Andreas Kardos
System V R4 m88k
System V R4 MIPS
Ultrix MIPS        7.1 2001-03-26, Alexander Klimov
Windows/Win32 x86  7.1 2001-03-26, Magnus Hagander (clients only)