Hi Tom
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To my mind this is pretty nearly ready to go. It's waiting
> on Peter to commit his patch (0001), and I'd really like to
> retest on AIX 7.3. But cfarm119 is still offline and I won’t
> wait for it forever.
Thank you for all your support and patience.
We have been coordinating with the OSU lab administrators regarding the
cfarm119 migration. There seems to be some networking issues in their lab.
In the meantime, we are also evaluating the following options to make AIX
7.3 available to the community for testing:
1. New node
We could provision a new node with AIX 7.3. However, setting up a new system
would require a significant amount of time, likely more than a week.
2. Dual boot
This would be the easiest approach.
The existing node (p9-aix1-postgres1) supports dual boot. One disk currently
runs AIX 7.2, while another disk already has AIX 7.3 installed. However,
booting into AIX 7.3 would prevent access to the data on the AIX 7.2 disk. This
option would also require re‑installing all necessary dependencies for building
PostgreSQL.
3. Migration
We could migrate the existing node from AIX 7.2 to AIX 7.3. This approach would
preserve the existing data, but the PostgreSQL build process would still need
to be validated.
We will update you on this.
Please let us know your thoughts or if you have any questions—we appreciate
your understanding and continued support.
Have a nice day.
Warm regards,
Sriram.
