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14.7. Supported Platforms

PostgreSQL has been verified by the developer community to work on the platforms listed below. A supported platform generally means that PostgreSQL builds and installs according to these instructions and that the regression tests pass. "Build farm" entries refer to active test machines in the PostgreSQL Build Farm. Platform entries that show an older version of PostgreSQL are those that did not receive explicit testing at the time of release of version 8.1 but that we still expect to work.

Note: If you are having problems with the installation on a supported platform, please write to or , not to the people listed here.

OSProcessorVersionReportedRemarks
AIXPowerPC8.1.0Build farm kookaburra (5.2, cc 6.0); asp (5.2, gcc 3.3.2)see doc/FAQ_AIX, particularly if using AIX 5.3 ML3
AIXRS60008.0.0Hans-Jürgen Schönig (), 2004-12-06see doc/FAQ_AIX
BSD/OSx868.1.0Bruce Momjian (), 2005-10-264.3.1
Debian GNU/LinuxAlpha8.1.0Build farm hare (3.1, gcc 3.3.4) 
Debian GNU/LinuxAMD648.1.0Build farm panda (sid, gcc 3.3.5) 
Debian GNU/LinuxARM8.1.0Build farm penguin (3.1, gcc 3.3.4) 
Debian GNU/LinuxAthlon XP8.1.0Build farm rook (3.1, gcc 3.3.5) 
Debian GNU/LinuxIA647.4Noèl Köthe (), 2003-10-25 
Debian GNU/Linuxm68k8.0.0Noèl Köthe (), 2004-12-09sid
Debian GNU/LinuxMIPS8.1.0Build farm otter (3.1, gcc 3.3.4) 
Debian GNU/LinuxMIPSEL8.1.0Build farm lionfish (3.1, gcc 3.3.4); corgi (3.1, gcc 3.3.4) 
Debian GNU/LinuxPA-RISC8.1.0Build farm kingfisher (3.1, gcc 3.3.5) 
Debian GNU/LinuxPowerPC8.0.0Noèl Köthe (), 2004-12-15sid
Debian GNU/LinuxS/3907.4Noèl Köthe (), 2003-10-25 
Debian GNU/LinuxSparc8.1.0Build farm dormouse (3.1, gcc 3.2.5; 64-bit) 
Debian GNU/Linuxx868.0.0Peter Eisentraut (), 2004-12-063.1 (sarge), kernel 2.6
FedoraAMD648.1.0Build farm viper (FC3, gcc 3.4.2) 
Fedorax868.1.0Build farm thrush (FC1, gcc 3.3.2) 
FreeBSDAlpha7.4Peter Eisentraut (), 2003-10-254.8
FreeBSDAMD648.1.0Build farm platypus (5.2.1, gcc 3.3.3); dove (5.4, gcc 3.4.2) 
FreeBSDx868.1.0Build farm octopus (4.11, gcc 2.95.4); flatworm (5.3, gcc 3.4.2); echidna (6, gcc 3.4.2); herring (6, Intel cc 7.1) 
Gentoo LinuxAMD648.1.0Build farm caribou (2.6.9, gcc 3.3.5) 
Gentoo LinuxIA648.1.0Build farm stoat (2.6, gcc 3.3) 
Gentoo LinuxPowerPC 648.1.0Build farm cobra (1.4.16, gcc 3.4.3) 
Gentoo Linuxx868.0.0Paul Bort (), 2004-12-07 
HP-UXIA648.1.0Tom Lane (), 2005-10-1511.23, gcc and cc; see doc/FAQ_HPUX
HP-UXPA-RISC8.1.0Tom Lane (), 2005-10-1510.20 and 11.23, gcc and cc; see doc/FAQ_HPUX
IRIXMIPS8.1.0Kenneth Marshall (), 2005-11-046.5, cc only
Mac OS XPowerPC8.1.0Build farm tuna (10.4.2, gcc 4.0); cuckoo (10.3.9, gcc 3.3); wallaroo (10.3.8, gcc 3.3) 
Mandrake Linuxx868.1.0Build farm shrew (10.0, gcc 3.3.2) 
NetBSDarm327.4Patrick Welche (), 2003-11-121.6ZE/acorn32
NetBSDm68k8.1.0Build farm osprey (2.0, gcc 3.3.3) 
NetBSDSparc7.4.1Peter Eisentraut (), 2003-11-261.6.1, 32-bit
NetBSDx868.0.0Build farm canary, snapshot 2004-12-06 03:30:001.6
OpenBSDSparc8.0.0Chris Mair (), 2005-01-103.3
OpenBSDSparc648.1.0Build farm spoonbill (3.6, gcc 3.3.2)compiler bug affects contrib/seg
OpenBSDx868.0.0Build farm emu, snapshot 2004-12-06 11:35:033.6
Red Hat LinuxAMD648.1.0Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23RHEL 4
Red Hat LinuxIA648.1.0Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23RHEL 4
Red Hat LinuxPowerPC8.1.0Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23RHEL 4
Red Hat LinuxPowerPC 648.1.0Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23RHEL 4
Red Hat LinuxS/3908.1.0Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23RHEL 4
Red Hat LinuxS/390x8.1.0Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23RHEL 4
Red Hat Linuxx868.1.0Tom Lane (), 2005-10-23RHEL 4
Slackware Linuxx868.1.0Sergey Koposov (), 2005-10-2410.0
SolarisSparc8.1.0Build farm buzzard (Solaris 10, gcc 3.3.2); Robert Lor (), 2005-11-04 (Solaris 9); Kenneth Marshall (), 2005-10-28 (Solaris 8, gcc 3.4.3)see doc/FAQ_Solaris
Solarisx868.1.0Robert Lor (), 2005-11-04 (Solaris 10)see doc/FAQ_Solaris
SUSE LinuxAMD648.1.0Josh Berkus (), 2005-10-23SLES 9.3
SUSE LinuxIA648.0.0Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03SLES 9
SUSE LinuxPowerPC8.0.0Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03SLES 9
SUSE LinuxPowerPC 648.0.0Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03SLES 9
SUSE LinuxS/3908.0.0Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03SLES 9
SUSE LinuxS/390x8.0.0Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-03SLES 9
SUSE Linuxx868.0.0Reinhard Max (), 2005-01-039.0, 9.1, 9.2, SLES 9
Tru64 UNIXAlpha8.1.0Honda Shigehiro (), 2005-11-015.0, cc 6.1-011
UnixWarex868.1.0Build farm firefly (7.1.4, cc 4.2)see doc/FAQ_SCO
Windowsx868.1.0Build farm loris (XP Pro, gcc 3.2.3); snake (Windows Server 2003, gcc 3.4.2)see doc/FAQ_MINGW
Windows with Cygwinx868.1.0Build farm ferret (XP Pro, gcc 3.3.3)see doc/FAQ_CYGWIN
Yellow Dog LinuxPowerPC8.1.0Build farm carp (4.0, gcc 3.3.3) 

Unsupported Platforms: The following platforms are either known not to work, or they used to work in a fairly distant previous release. We include these here to let you know that these platforms could be supported if given some attention.

OSProcessorVersionReportedRemarks
BeOSx867.2Cyril Velter (), 2001-11-29needs updates to semaphore code
LinuxPlayStation 28.0.0Chris Mair (), 2005-01-09requires --disable-spinlocks (works, but slow)
NetBSDAlpha7.2Thomas Thai (), 2001-11-201.5W
NetBSDMIPS7.2.1Warwick Hunter (), 2002-06-131.5.3
NetBSDPowerPC7.2Bill Studenmund (), 2001-11-281.5
NetBSDVAX7.1Tom I. Helbekkmo (), 2001-03-301.5
QNX 4 RTOSx867.2Bernd Tegge (), 2001-12-10 needs updates to semaphore code; see also doc/FAQ_QNX4
QNX RTOS v6x867.2Igor Kovalenko (), 2001-11-20patches available in archives, but too late for 7.2
SCO OpenServerx867.3.1Shibashish Satpathy (), 2002-12-115.0.4, gcc; see also doc/FAQ_SCO
SunOS 4Sparc7.2Tatsuo Ishii (), 2001-12-04 

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