Remove AIX support

There isn't a lot of user demand for AIX support, we have a bunch of
hacks to work around AIX-specific compiler bugs and idiosyncrasies,
and no one has stepped up to the plate to properly maintain it.
Remove support for AIX to get rid of that maintenance overhead. It's
still supported for stable versions.

The acute issue that triggered this decision was that after commit
8af2565248, the AIX buildfarm members have been hitting this
assertion:

    TRAP: failed Assert("(uintptr_t) buffer == TYPEALIGN(PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, buffer)"), File: "md.c", Line: 472, PID: 2949728

Apperently the "pg_attribute_aligned(a)" attribute doesn't work on AIX
for values larger than PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, for a static const variable.
That could be worked around, but we decided to just drop the AIX support
instead.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Thomas Munro

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 61 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh b/src/backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index adf3793e868..00000000000
--- a/src/backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# mkldexport
-#	create an AIX exports file from an object file
-#
-# src/backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh
-#
-# Usage:
-#	mkldexport objectfile [location]
-# where
-#	objectfile is the current location of the object file.
-#	location is the eventual (installed) location of the
-#		object file (if different from the current
-#		working directory).
-#
-# [This file comes from the Postgres 4.2 distribution. - ay 7/95]
-#
-# Header: /usr/local/devel/postgres/src/tools/mkldexport/RCS/mkldexport.sh,v 1.2 1994/03/13 04:59:12 aoki Exp
-#
-
-# setting this to nm -B might be better
-# ... due to changes in AIX 4.x ...
-# ... let us search in different directories - Gerhard Reithofer
-if [ -x /usr/ucb/nm ]
-then NM=/usr/ucb/nm
-elif [ -x /usr/bin/nm ]
-then NM=/usr/bin/nm
-elif [ -x /usr/ccs/bin/nm ]
-then NM=/usr/ccs/bin/nm
-elif [ -x /usr/usg/bin/nm ]
-then NM=/usr/usg/bin/nm
-else echo "Fatal error: cannot find `nm' ... please check your installation."
-     exit 1
-fi
-
-CMDNAME=`basename $0`
-if [ -z "$1" ]; then
-	echo "Usage: $CMDNAME object [location]"
-	exit 1
-fi
-OBJNAME=`basename $1`
-if [ "`basename $OBJNAME`" != "`basename $OBJNAME .o`" ]; then
-	OBJNAME=`basename $OBJNAME .o`.so
-fi
-if [ -z "$2" ]; then
-	echo '#!'
-else
-	if [ "$2" = "." ]; then
-		# for the base executable (AIX 4.2 and up)
-		echo '#! .'
-	else
-		echo '#!' $2
-	fi
-fi
-$NM -BCg $1 | \
-	egrep ' [TDB] ' | \
-	sed -e 's/.* //' | \
-	egrep -v '\$' | \
-	sed -e 's/^[.]//' | \
-	sort | \
-	uniq