Re: PostgreSQL on Solaris future

[Lou Picciano <loupicciano@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd be happy to offer Solaris build services, as well, should this become an issue - for as long as we can maintain our loyalty to Solaris.  We are dependent now on the same set of variables to which Tom alludes.  I think the inference must be: That a company wielding the resources of an Oracle could have long ago made a clear commitment to its de facto (if inherited) opensource community, if such a commitment had been its intention.

We're now all in limbo on this...

And don't forget the hard work of Steve Christensen; Steve continues to offer builds of PostgreSQL - and loads of other immensely useful packages - on SunFreeware, even in the face of tenuous support from Sun.  Thank You, Steve!

Lou

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "wstrzalka" <wstrzalka@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 1, 2010 9:51:27 AM
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL on Solaris future

wstrzalka <wstrzalka@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>    As I know Solaris packages were maintained by Sun but I'm not sure
> about the future after recent buildfarm problems.
>    Does the community plans to maintain Solaris packages or it will be
> Oracle dependent?

When and if Bjorn stops building packages, we'll look for a replacement.
Presumably somebody will be willing to do it, unless Oracle has managed
to drive open source users away from Solaris completely by then.

                        regards, tom lane

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