FAQs and Port Status

Started by Simon Riggsabout 19 years ago9 messages
#1Simon Riggs
simon@2ndquadrant.com

The various ports and FAQs are fairly confusing, I note.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/

- AIX FAQ could do with some work, its long with lots of As and not many
Qs, so its hard to understand what its telling you. But it clearly
works, judging by the build farm. Sorry to criticise when there's such a
wealth of detail there.

- HP/UX FAQ mentions rel 7.3 only and there's no build farm result, but
I'm wondering whether some eagle-eyed hacker still uses it, or whether
this port has fallen into disuse?

- IRIX FAQ mentions rel 7.2, which we really ought to mention is not
supported anymore in the FAQ, or remove it.

- MINGW/Windows FAQ claims to be the FAQ for "Native Win32", which is
interesting because the Windows FAQ says that as well...

- QNX FAQ doesn't exist at all; real-time is a thing of the past
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_QNX4.html

- SCO FAQ's title is FAQ for 7.3, then starts with explaining how 8.0
works with UnixWare. I see warthog running HEAD on UnixWare nicely, so
there's some updating required there.

- Solaris FAQ - I found some DTrace docs... cool

It would be just great if we could have a link from the FAQ/Platform
area to the buildfarm, with an encouragement to see for themselves
whether their desired release works well on their chosen platform.
All that grand work should be shouted about...

Many people's questions will be does it work with Linux Flavour X, so we
should send them straight to the buildfarm to answer their own query.

It would be good if the FAQ page could be renamed "FAQ and Port Status"

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#2Chris Browne
cbbrowne@acm.org
In reply to: Simon Riggs (#1)
Re: FAQs and Port Status

simon@2ndquadrant.com ("Simon Riggs") writes:

The various ports and FAQs are fairly confusing, I note.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/

- AIX FAQ could do with some work, its long with lots of As and not
many Qs, so its hard to understand what its telling you. But it
clearly works, judging by the build farm. Sorry to criticise when
there's such a wealth of detail there.

Unfortunately, it has grown organically, adding responses to problems
that we have run into.

It is a bit confusing, but I'm not quite sure what to do to make it
appear more organized, as the issues discussed are fairly independent
of one another.

All I can say is that AIX troubleshooting is quite a circus...
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#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Simon Riggs (#1)
Re: [HACKERS] FAQs and Port Status

Feel free to submit a patch to clean up what you can.

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Simon Riggs wrote:

The various ports and FAQs are fairly confusing, I note.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/

- AIX FAQ could do with some work, its long with lots of As and not many
Qs, so its hard to understand what its telling you. But it clearly
works, judging by the build farm. Sorry to criticise when there's such a
wealth of detail there.

- HP/UX FAQ mentions rel 7.3 only and there's no build farm result, but
I'm wondering whether some eagle-eyed hacker still uses it, or whether
this port has fallen into disuse?

- IRIX FAQ mentions rel 7.2, which we really ought to mention is not
supported anymore in the FAQ, or remove it.

- MINGW/Windows FAQ claims to be the FAQ for "Native Win32", which is
interesting because the Windows FAQ says that as well...

- QNX FAQ doesn't exist at all; real-time is a thing of the past
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_QNX4.html

- SCO FAQ's title is FAQ for 7.3, then starts with explaining how 8.0
works with UnixWare. I see warthog running HEAD on UnixWare nicely, so
there's some updating required there.

- Solaris FAQ - I found some DTrace docs... cool

It would be just great if we could have a link from the FAQ/Platform
area to the buildfarm, with an encouragement to see for themselves
whether their desired release works well on their chosen platform.
All that grand work should be shouted about...

Many people's questions will be does it work with Linux Flavour X, so we
should send them straight to the buildfarm to answer their own query.

It would be good if the FAQ page could be renamed "FAQ and Port Status"

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#4Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Simon Riggs (#1)
Re: FAQs and Port Status

Oh, and would someone remove the QNX faq mention on this web page:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/

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Simon Riggs wrote:

The various ports and FAQs are fairly confusing, I note.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/

- AIX FAQ could do with some work, its long with lots of As and not many
Qs, so its hard to understand what its telling you. But it clearly
works, judging by the build farm. Sorry to criticise when there's such a
wealth of detail there.

- HP/UX FAQ mentions rel 7.3 only and there's no build farm result, but
I'm wondering whether some eagle-eyed hacker still uses it, or whether
this port has fallen into disuse?

- IRIX FAQ mentions rel 7.2, which we really ought to mention is not
supported anymore in the FAQ, or remove it.

- MINGW/Windows FAQ claims to be the FAQ for "Native Win32", which is
interesting because the Windows FAQ says that as well...

- QNX FAQ doesn't exist at all; real-time is a thing of the past
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_QNX4.html

- SCO FAQ's title is FAQ for 7.3, then starts with explaining how 8.0
works with UnixWare. I see warthog running HEAD on UnixWare nicely, so
there's some updating required there.

- Solaris FAQ - I found some DTrace docs... cool

It would be just great if we could have a link from the FAQ/Platform
area to the buildfarm, with an encouragement to see for themselves
whether their desired release works well on their chosen platform.
All that grand work should be shouted about...

Many people's questions will be does it work with Linux Flavour X, so we
should send them straight to the buildfarm to answer their own query.

It would be good if the FAQ page could be renamed "FAQ and Port Status"

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Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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#5Simon Riggs
simon@2ndquadrant.com
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#3)
Re: [HACKERS] FAQs and Port Status

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:52 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Feel free to submit a patch to clean up what you can.

Happy to do so. I just didn't want to tread on the toes of the current
maintainers.

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#6Matteo Beccati
php@beccati.com
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#3)
Re: [HACKERS] FAQs and Port Status

Bruce Momjian ha scritto:

Feel free to submit a patch to clean up what you can.

Simon Riggs wrote:

- IRIX FAQ mentions rel 7.2, which we really ought to mention is not
supported anymore in the FAQ, or remove it.

I will probably play with it in my spare time as soon as I get my new
SGI Octane2 working (hopefully soon), and contribute any useful info.

Feel free to remove it for the time being though.

Best regards
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#7Chris Browne
cbbrowne@acm.org
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#3)
Re: FAQs and Port Status

simon@2ndquadrant.com ("Simon Riggs") writes:

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:52 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Feel free to submit a patch to clean up what you can.

Happy to do so. I just didn't want to tread on the toes of the current
maintainers.

If you have useful suggestions for the AIX one, I'd be happy to see
it. I did a browse, as one of the contributors, and it's not clear to
me how to improve it...
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#8Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com
In reply to: Matteo Beccati (#6)
Re: [HACKERS] FAQs and Port Status

All,

For an amusing note, there is someone currently working on porting PG to
AmigaAnywhere.

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#9Magnus Hagander
mha@sollentuna.net
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#4)
Re: FAQs and Port Status

Removed.

//Magnus

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-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:54 PM
To: Simon Riggs
Cc: PostgreSQL www
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] FAQs and Port Status

Oh, and would someone remove the QNX faq mention on this web page:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/

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Simon Riggs wrote:

The various ports and FAQs are fairly confusing, I note.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/

- AIX FAQ could do with some work, its long with lots of As and not
many Qs, so its hard to understand what its telling you. But it
clearly works, judging by the build farm. Sorry to criticise when
there's such a wealth of detail there.

- HP/UX FAQ mentions rel 7.3 only and there's no build farm result,
but I'm wondering whether some eagle-eyed hacker still uses it, or
whether this port has fallen into disuse?

- IRIX FAQ mentions rel 7.2, which we really ought to

mention is not

supported anymore in the FAQ, or remove it.

- MINGW/Windows FAQ claims to be the FAQ for "Native

Win32", which is

interesting because the Windows FAQ says that as well...

- QNX FAQ doesn't exist at all; real-time is a thing of the past
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_QNX4.html

- SCO FAQ's title is FAQ for 7.3, then starts with

explaining how 8.0

works with UnixWare. I see warthog running HEAD on UnixWare

nicely, so

there's some updating required there.

- Solaris FAQ - I found some DTrace docs... cool

It would be just great if we could have a link from the

FAQ/Platform

area to the buildfarm, with an encouragement to see for themselves
whether their desired release works well on their chosen platform.
All that grand work should be shouted about...

Many people's questions will be does it work with Linux

Flavour X, so

we should send them straight to the buildfarm to answer

their own query.

It would be good if the FAQ page could be renamed "FAQ and

Port Status"

--
Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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