pgsql: Restore AIX support. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Restore AIX support.

The concerns that led us to remove AIX support in commit 0b16bb877
have now been alleviated:

1. IBM has stepped forward to provide support, including buildfarm
animal(s).
2. AIX 7.2 and later seem to be fine with large pg_attribute_aligned
requirements.  Since 7.1 is now EOL anyway, we can just cease to
support it.
3. Tossing xlc support overboard seems okay as well.  It's a bit
sad to drop one of the few remaining non-gcc-alike compilers, but
working around xlc's bugs and idiosyncrasies doesn't seem justified
by the theoretical portability benefits.
4. Likewise, we can stop supporting 32-bit AIX builds.  This is
not so much about whether we could build such executables as that
they're too much of a pain to manage in the field, due to limited
address space available for dynamic library loading.
5. We hit on a way to manage catalog column alignment that doesn't
require continuing developer effort (see commit ecae09725).

Hence, this commit reverts 0b16bb877 and some follow-on commits
such as e6bb491bf, except for not putting back XLC support nor
the changes related to catalog column alignment.

Some other notable changes from the way things were in v16:

Prefer unnamed POSIX semaphores on AIX, rather than the default
choice of SysV semaphores.

Include /opt/freeware/lib in -Wl,-blibpath, even when it is not
mentioned anywhere in LDFLAGS.

Remove platform-specific adjustment of MEMSET_LOOP_LIMIT; maybe
that's still the right thing, but it really ought to be re-tested.

Silence compiler warnings related to getpeereid(), wcstombs_l(),
and PAM conversation procs.

Accept "libpythonXXX.a" as an okay name for the Python shared
library (but only on AIX!).

Author: Aditya Kamath <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com>
Author: Srirama Kucherlapati <sriram.rk@in.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CY5PR11MB63928CC05906F27FB10D74D0FD322@CY5PR11MB6392.namprd11.prod.outlook.com

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4a1b05caa55dc14a1f936af78d8d19c843bfd8b9

Modified Files
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Makefile                                   |  2 -
config/python.m4                           |  5 +++
configure                                  |  9 +++-
configure.ac                               |  4 +-
doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml             | 40 ++++++++++++++++-
doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml                  | 23 ++++++++++
meson.build                                | 33 +++++++++++++-
src/Makefile.shlib                         | 29 ++++++++++++
src/backend/Makefile                       | 38 ++++++++++++++--
src/backend/meson.build                    | 19 ++++++++
src/backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh         | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/backend/utils/error/elog.c             |  2 +
src/backend/utils/misc/ps_status.c         |  4 +-
src/include/port/aix.h                     | 22 +++++++++
src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/meson.build  |  2 +-
src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/meson.build    |  2 +-
src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/meson.build |  2 +-
src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile              |  2 +
src/interfaces/libpq/meson.build           |  7 +--
src/makefiles/Makefile.aix                 | 42 ++++++++++++++++++
src/port/README                            |  2 +-
src/port/strerror.c                        |  2 +
src/template/aix                           | 19 ++++++++
src/test/regress/Makefile                  |  5 +++
src/tools/gen_export.pl                    | 17 +++++--
src/tools/pginclude/headerscheck           |  1 +
26 files changed, 381 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)