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.
Note: If you are having problems with the installation on a supported platform, please write to
<[email protected]>or<[email protected]>, not to the people listed here.
| OS | Processor | Version | Reported | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIX | RS6000 | 7.2 | 2001-12-19, Andreas Zeugswetter (<[email protected]>),
Tatsuo Ishii (<[email protected]>) |
see also doc/FAQ_AIX |
| BeOS | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-11-29, Cyril Velter (<[email protected]>) |
5.0.4 |
| BSD/OS | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-11-27, Bruce Momjian (<[email protected]>) |
4.2 |
| FreeBSD | Alpha | 7.2 | 2001-12-18, Chris Kings-Lynne (<[email protected]>) |
|
| FreeBSD | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-11-14, Chris Kings-Lynne (<[email protected]>) |
|
| HP-UX | PA-RISC | 7.2 | 2001-11-29, Joseph Conway (<[email protected]>),
Tom Lane (<[email protected]>) |
11.00 and 10.20; see also doc/FAQ_HPUX |
| IRIX | MIPS | 7.2 | 2001-11-28, Luis Amigo (<[email protected]>) |
6.5.13, MIPSPro 7.30 |
| Linux | Alpha | 7.2 | 2001-11-16, Tom Lane (<[email protected]>) |
2.2.18; tested at SourceForge |
| Linux | armv4l | 7.2 | 2001-12-10, Mark Knox (<[email protected]>) |
2.2.x |
| Linux | MIPS | 7.2 | 2001-11-15, Hisao Shibuya (<[email protected]>) |
2.0.x; Cobalt Qube2 |
| Linux | PlayStation 2 | 7.2 | 2001-12-12, Permaine Cheung <[email protected]>) |
#undef HAS_TEST_AND_SET, slock_t |
| Linux | PPC74xx | 7.2 | 2001-11-16, Tom Lane (<[email protected]>) |
2.2.18; Apple G3 |
| Linux | S/390 | 7.2 | 2001-12-12, Permaine Cheung <[email protected]>) |
|
| Linux | Sparc | 7.2 | 2001-11-28, Doug McNaught (<[email protected]>) |
2.2.19 |
| Linux | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-11-15, Thomas Lockhart (<[email protected]>) |
2.0.x, 2.2.x, 2.4.x |
| MacOS X | PPC | 7.2 | 2001-11-28, Gavin Sherry (<[email protected]>) |
10.1.x |
| NetBSD | Alpha | 7.2 | 2001-11-20, Thomas Thai (<[email protected]>) |
1.5W |
| NetBSD | arm32 | 7.1 | 2001-03-21, Patrick Welche (<[email protected]>) |
1.5E |
| NetBSD | m68k | 7.0 | 2000-04-10, Henry B. Hotz (<[email protected]>) |
Mac 8xx |
| NetBSD | PPC | 7.2 | 2001-11-28, Bill Studenmund (<[email protected]>) |
1.5 |
| NetBSD | Sparc | 7.2 | 2001-12-03, Matthew Green (<[email protected]>) |
32- and 64-bit builds |
| NetBSD | VAX | 7.1 | 2001-03-30, Tom I. Helbekkmo (<[email protected]>) |
1.5 |
| NetBSD | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-11-28, Bill Studenmund (<[email protected]>) |
1.5 |
| OpenBSD | Sparc | 7.2 | 2001-11-27, Brandon Palmer (<[email protected]>) |
3.0 |
| OpenBSD | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-11-26, Brandon Palmer (<[email protected]>) |
3.0 |
| Open UNIX | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-11-28, OU-8 Larry Rosenman (<[email protected]>),
UW-7 Olivier Prenant (<[email protected]>) |
see also doc/FAQ_SCO |
| QNX 4 RTOS | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-12-10, Bernd Tegge (<[email protected]>) |
4.25; see also doc/FAQ_QNX4 |
| Solaris | Sparc | 7.2 | 2001-11-12, Andrew Sullivan (<[email protected]>) |
2.6-8; see also doc/FAQ_Solaris |
| Solaris | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-11-28, Martin Renters (<[email protected]>) |
2.8; see also doc/FAQ_Solaris |
| SunOS 4 | Sparc | 7.2 | 2001-12-04, Tatsuo Ishii (<[email protected]>) |
|
| Tru64 UNIX | Alpha | 7.2 | 2001-11-26, Alessio Bragadini (<[email protected]>),
Bernd Tegge (<[email protected]>) |
5.0; 4.0g with cc and gcc |
| Windows | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-12-13, Dave Page (<[email protected]>),
Jason Tishler (<[email protected]>) |
with Cygwin; see doc/FAQ_MSWIN |
| Windows | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-12-10, Dave Page (<[email protected]>) |
native is client-side only; see Chapter 2 |
Unsupported Platforms: 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 7.2 at the time this list was compiled. We include these here to let you know that these platforms could be supported if given some attention.
| OS | Processor | Version | Reported | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DG/UX 5.4R4.11 | m88k | 6.3 | 1998-03-01, Brian E Gallew (<[email protected]>) |
no recent reports |
| MkLinux DR1 | PPC750 | 7.0 | 2001-04-03, Tatsuo Ishii (<[email protected]>) |
7.1 needs OS update? |
| NeXTSTEP | x86 | 6.x | 1998-03-01, David Wetzel (<[email protected]>) |
bit rot suspected |
| QNX RTOS v6 | x86 | 7.2 | 2001-11-20, Igor Kovalenko (<[email protected]>) |
patches available in archives, but too late for 7.2 |
| SCO OpenServer 5 | x86 | 6.5 | 1999-05-25, Andrew Merrill (<[email protected]>) |
7.2.8 should work, but no reports; see also doc/FAQ_SCO |
| System V R4 | m88k | 6.2.1 | 1998-03-01, Doug Winterburn (<[email protected]>) |
needs new TAS spinlock code |
| System V R4 | MIPS | 6.4 | 1998-10-28, Frank Ridderbusch (<[email protected]>) |
no recent reports |
| Ultrix | MIPS | 7.1 | 2001-03-26 | TAS spinlock code not detected |
| Ultrix | VAX | 6.x | 1998-03-01 |