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PostgreSQL7.4.6 for Linux

   <productname>PostgreSQL</> has been verified by the developer
   community to work on the platforms listed below. A supported
   platform generally means that <productname>PostgreSQL</> builds and
   installs according to these instructions and that the regression
   tests pass.
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  <note>
   <para>
    If you are having problems with the installation on a supported
    platform, please write to <email>[e-mail]</email>
    or <email>[e-mail]</email>, not to the people
    listed here.
   </para>
  </note>

    <informaltable>
     <tgroup cols="5">
      <thead>
       <row>
        <entry><acronym>OS</acronym></entry>
        <entry>Processor</entry>
        <entry>Version</entry>
        <entry>Reported</entry>
        <entry>Remarks</entry>
       </row>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">AIX</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>RS6000</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25,
          Hans-J&uuml;rgen Sch&ouml;nig (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>see also <filename>doc/FAQ_AIX</filename></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">BSD/OS</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-24,
         Bruce Momjian (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>4.3</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>Alpha</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25,
         Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>4.8</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-24,
         Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>4.9</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">HP-UX</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>PA-RISC</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>
         2003-10-31, 10.20, Tom Lane (<email>[e-mail]</email>);
         2003-11-04, 11.00, Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)
        </entry>
        <entry><command>gcc</> and <command>cc</>; see also <filename>doc/FAQ_HPUX</filename></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">IRIX</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>MIPS</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-11-12,
         Robert E. Bruccoleri (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>6.5.20, <command>cc</command> only</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>Alpha</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25,
         No&egrave;l K&ouml;the (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>arm41</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25,
         No&egrave;l K&ouml;the (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>Itanium</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25,
         No&egrave;l K&ouml;the (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>m68k</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25,
         No&egrave;l K&ouml;the (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>MIPS</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25,
         No&egrave;l K&ouml;the (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>Opteron</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-11-01,
         Jani Averbach (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.6</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>PPC</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25,
         No&egrave;l K&ouml;the (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>S/390</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25,
         No&egrave;l K&ouml;the (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>Sparc</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-24, 
         Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.4, 32-bit</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-24,
         Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Mac OS X</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>PPC</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-24,
         10.2.8, Adam Witney (<email>[e-mail]</email>),
         10.3, Marko Karppinen (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>arm32</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-11-12,
         Patrick Welche (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>1.6ZE/acorn32</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>Sparc</></entry>
        <entry>7.4.1</entry>
        <entry>2003-11-26,
         Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>1.6.1, 32-bit</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-24,
         Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>1.6</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">OpenBSD</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>Sparc</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-11-01,
         Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>3.4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">OpenBSD</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-24,
         Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>3.2</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Solaris</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>Sparc</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-26,
         Christopher Browne (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.8; see also <filename>doc/FAQ_Solaris</filename></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Solaris</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-26,
         Kurt Roeckx (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>2.6; see also <filename>doc/FAQ_Solaris</filename></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Tru64 UNIX</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>Alpha</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-25, 5.1b, Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>);
         2003-10-29, 4.0g, Alessio Bragadini (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">UnixWare</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-11-03, Larry Rosenman (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>7.1.3; join test may fail, see also <filename>doc/FAQ_SCO</filename></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Windows with <application>Cygwin</application></></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-24,
         Peter Eisentraut (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>see <filename>doc/FAQ_MSWIN</filename></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry><systemitem class="osname">Windows</></entry>
        <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
        <entry>7.4</entry>
        <entry>2003-10-27, 
         Dave Page (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
        <entry>
         native is client-side only,
<![%standalone-include[see documentation]]>
<![%standalone-ignore[see <xref linkend="install-win32">]]>
        </entry>
       </row>
      </tbody>
     </tgroup>
    </informaltable>

  <formalpara>
   <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.
   </para>
  </formalpara>

  <informaltable>
   <tgroup cols="5">
    <thead>
     <row>
      <entry><acronym>OS</acronym></entry>
      <entry>Processor</entry>
      <entry>Version</entry>
      <entry>Reported</entry>
      <entry>Remarks</entry>
     </row>
    </thead>

    <tbody>
     <row>
      <entry><systemitem class="osname">BeOS</></entry>
      <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
      <entry>7.2</entry>
      <entry>2001-11-29,
       Cyril Velter (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</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>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
      <entry>
       needs new <filename>config.guess</filename>,
       <option>--disable-spinlocks</option>, <literal>#undef
       HAS_TEST_AND_SET</>, disable <function>tas_dummy()</>
      </entry>
     </row>
     <row>
      <entry><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></entry>
      <entry><systemitem>PA-RISC</></entry>
      <entry>7.4</entry>
      <entry>2003-10-25,
       No&egrave;l K&ouml;the (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
      <entry>needs <option>--disable-spinlocks</option>, otherwise OK</entry>
     </row>
     <row>
      <entry><systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</></entry>
      <entry><systemitem>Alpha</></entry>
      <entry>7.2</entry>
      <entry>2001-11-20,
       Thomas Thai (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</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>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
      <entry>1.5.3</entry>
     </row>
     <row>
      <entry><systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</></entry>
      <entry><systemitem>PPC</></entry>
      <entry>7.2</entry>
      <entry>2001-11-28,
       Bill Studenmund (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</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>[e-mail]</email>)</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>[e-mail]</email>)
      </entry>
      <entry>needs updates to semaphore code;
       see also <filename>doc/FAQ_QNX4</filename></entry>
     </row>
     <row>
      <entry><systemitem class="osname">QNX RTOS v6</></entry>
      <entry><systemitem>x86</></entry>
      <entry>7.2</entry>
      <entry>2001-11-20, Igor Kovalenko (<email>[e-mail]</email>)</entry>
      <entry>patch