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<chapter id="installation">
<title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]>
installs according to these instructions and that the regression
tests pass. <quote>Build farm</quote> entries refer to builds
reported by the <ulink url="http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/">PostgreSQL
- Build Farm</ulink>.
+ Build Farm</ulink>. Platform entries that show an older version of
+ PostgreSQL are those that did not receive explicit testing at the
+ time of release of version &majorversion; but that we still
+ expect to work.
</para>
<note>
</row>
<row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">OpenBSD</></entry>
+ <entry><systemitem>Sparc</></entry>
+ <entry>8.0.0</entry>
+ <entry>Chris Mair (<email>list@1006.org</email>), 2005-01-10</entry>
+ <entry>3.3</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><systemitem class="osname">OpenBSD</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>Sparc64</></entry>
<entry>8.0.0</entry>
<entry>Build farm <systemitem class="systemname">spoonbill</systemitem>, snapshot 2005-01-06 00:50:05</entry>
<entry>Solaris 9; see also <filename>doc/FAQ_Solaris</filename></entry>
</row>
<row>
+ <entry><systemitem class="osname">SUSE Linux</></entry>
+ <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
+ <entry>8.0.0</entry>
+ <entry>Peter Eisentraut (<email>peter_e@gmx.net</email>), 2005-01-10</entry>
+ <entry>9.1</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">Tru64 UNIX</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>Alpha</></entry>
<entry>8.0.0</entry>
<title>Unsupported Platforms:</title>
<para>
The following platforms are either known not to work, or they used
- to work in a previous release and we did not receive explicit
- confirmation of a successful test with version &majorversion; at
- the time this list was compiled. We include these here to let you
- know that these platforms <emphasis>could</> be supported if given
- some attention.
+ to work in a fairly distant previous release. We include these
+ here to let you know that these platforms <emphasis>could</> be
+ supported if given some attention.
</para>
</formalpara>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">BeOS</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
<entry>7.2</entry>
- <entry>2001-11-29,
- Cyril Velter (<email>cyril.velter@libertysurf.fr</email>)</entry>
+ <entry>Cyril Velter (<email>cyril.velter@libertysurf.fr</email>), 2001-11-29</entry>
<entry>needs updates to semaphore code</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>PlayStation 2</></entry>
- <entry>7.4</entry>
- <entry>2003-11-02,
- Peter Eisentraut (<email>peter_e@gmx.net</email>)</entry>
- <entry>
- needs new <filename>config.guess</filename>,
- <option>--disable-spinlocks</option>
- </entry>
+ <entry>8.0.0</entry>
+ <entry>Chris Mair (<email>list@1006.org</email>), 2005-01-09</entry>
+ <entry>requires <option>--disable-spinlocks</option> (works, but slow)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>Alpha</></entry>
<entry>7.2</entry>
- <entry>2001-11-20,
- Thomas Thai (<email>tom@minnesota.com</email>)</entry>
+ <entry>Thomas Thai (<email>tom@minnesota.com</email>), 2001-11-20</entry>
<entry>1.5W</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>MIPS</></entry>
<entry>7.2.1</entry>
- <entry>2002-06-13,
- Warwick Hunter (<email>whunter@agile.tv</email>)</entry>
+ <entry>Warwick Hunter (<email>whunter@agile.tv</email>), 2002-06-13</entry>
<entry>1.5.3</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>PowerPC</></entry>
<entry>7.2</entry>
- <entry>2001-11-28,
- Bill Studenmund (<email>wrstuden@netbsd.org</email>)</entry>
+ <entry>Bill Studenmund (<email>wrstuden@netbsd.org</email>), 2001-11-28</entry>
<entry>1.5</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>VAX</></entry>
<entry>7.1</entry>
- <entry>2001-03-30,
- Tom I. Helbekkmo (<email>tih@kpnQwest.no</email>)</entry>
+ <entry>Tom I. Helbekkmo (<email>tih@kpnQwest.no</email>), 2001-03-30</entry>
<entry>1.5</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">QNX 4 RTOS</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
<entry>7.2</entry>
- <entry>2001-12-10,
- Bernd Tegge (<email>tegge@repas-aeg.de</email>)
+ <entry>Bernd Tegge (<email>tegge@repas-aeg.de</email>), 2001-12-10
</entry>
<entry>needs updates to semaphore code;
see also <filename>doc/FAQ_QNX4</filename></entry>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">QNX RTOS v6</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
<entry>7.2</entry>
- <entry>2001-11-20, Igor Kovalenko (<email>Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com</email>)</entry>
+ <entry>Igor Kovalenko (<email>Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com</email>), 2001-11-20</entry>
<entry>patches available in archives, but too late for 7.2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">SCO OpenServer</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
<entry>7.3.1</entry>
- <entry>2002-12-11,
- Shibashish Satpathy (<email>shib@postmark.net</>)</entry>
+ <entry>Shibashish Satpathy (<email>shib@postmark.net</>), 2002-12-11</entry>
<entry>5.0.4, <command>gcc</>; see also <filename>doc/FAQ_SCO</filename></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><systemitem class="osname">SunOS 4</></entry>
<entry><systemitem>Sparc</></entry>
<entry>7.2</entry>
- <entry>2001-12-04, Tatsuo Ishii (<email>t-ishii@sra.co.jp</email>)</entry>
+ <entry>Tatsuo Ishii (<email>t-ishii@sra.co.jp</email>), 2001-12-04</entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
</tbody>