Thread: Re: [PATCHES] FAQ refresh

Re: [PATCHES] FAQ refresh

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Refresh of the Port FAQ pages, as discussed.

Please do not duplicate information from the installation.sgml
"supported platforms" list into the FAQs.  It's hard enough
to maintain that info in one place.

            regards, tom lane

Re: [PATCHES] FAQ refresh

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Tom Lane wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Refresh of the Port FAQ pages, as discussed.
>
> Please do not duplicate information from the installation.sgml
> "supported platforms" list into the FAQs.  It's hard enough
> to maintain that info in one place.
>

Supported platforms removed.

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Index: doc/FAQ_AIX
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/FAQ_AIX,v
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  Topics

- - Known Working Ports
  - AIX 4.3.2 Port Report
  - AIX 5.3 Additional Information
  - AIX, readline, and postgres 8.1.x:
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  -----

- Working Ports
- -------------
- Consult http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/ for latest information.
-
- At time of writing the following builds work on 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2
-
-     AIX 5.3 using gcc 4.0.1 on PowerPC
-     AIX 5.2 using gcc 3.3.2 on PowerPC
-     AIX 5.2 using cc 6.0 on PowerPC
-
- plus port report below for AIX 4.3.2
-
- -----
-
  From: Zeugswetter Andreas <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
  $Date: 2006/12/05 14:47:33 $

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Index: doc/FAQ_HPUX
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/FAQ_HPUX,v
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  tools.  At least one developer routinely tests on HPUX 10.20 and we
  have reports of successful installations on HPUX 11.00 and 11.11.

- Recent port reports for PostgreSQL 8.2.0 are
-   - on IA64,    HP-UX 11.23,           gcc and cc
-   - on PA-RISC, HP-UX 10.20 and 11.23, gcc and cc
- Tested on 2006-10-23
-
  Aside from the PostgreSQL source distribution, you will need GNU make
  (HP's make will not do), and either GNU gcc or HP's full ANSI C compiler.
  If you intend to build from CVS sources rather than a distribution tarball,
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Index: doc/FAQ_IRIX
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  and r12000(ip35) processors, running IRIX 6.5.5m, 6.5.12 and 6.5.13 with
  MIPSPro compilers version 7.30, 7.3.1.2m and 7.3.

- PostgreSQL 8.1.0 has been reported as compiling successfully on IRIX 6.5
- on MIPS using cc by Kenneth Marshall (<ktm@is.rice.edu>), 2005-11-04
-
  Aside from the PostgreSQL source distribution, you will need GNU make
  (SGI's make will not do), and the MIPSPro full ANSI C compiler.

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