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A platform (that is, a CPU architecture and operating system combination)
is considered supported by the <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> development
community if the code contains provisions to work on that platform and
it has recently been verified to build and pass its regression tests
on that platform. Currently, most testing of platform compatibility
is done automatically by test machines in the
<a class="ulink" href="https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/" target="_top">PostgreSQL Build Farm</a>.
If you are interested in using <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> on a platform
that is not represented in the build farm, but on which the code works
or can be made to work, you are strongly encouraged to set up a build
farm member machine so that continued compatibility can be assured.
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In general, <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> can be expected to work on
these CPU architectures: x86, PowerPC, S/390, SPARC, ARM, MIPS, RISC-V,
and PA-RISC, including
big-endian, little-endian, 32-bit, and 64-bit variants where applicable.
It is often
possible to build on an unsupported CPU type by configuring with
<code class="option">--disable-spinlocks</code>, but performance will be poor.
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<span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> can be expected to work on current
versions of these operating systems: Linux, Windows,
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, macOS, AIX, Solaris, and illumos.
Other Unix-like systems may also work but are not currently
being tested. In most cases, all CPU architectures supported by
a given operating system will work. Look in
<a class="xref" href="installation-platform-notes.html" title="17.7. Platform-Specific Notes">Section 17.7</a> below to see if
there is information
specific to your operating system, particularly if using an older system.
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If you have installation problems on a platform that is known
to be supported according to recent build farm results, please report
it to <code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org">pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org</a>></code>. If you are interested
in porting <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> to a new platform,
<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org">pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org</a>></code> is the appropriate place
to discuss that.
</p><p>
Historical versions of <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> or POSTGRES
also ran on CPU architectures including Alpha, Itanium, M32R, M68K,
M88K, NS32K, SuperH, and VAX, and operating systems including 4.3BSD, BEOS,
BSD/OS, DG/UX, Dynix, HP-UX, IRIX, NeXTSTEP, QNX, SCO, SINIX, Sprite, SunOS,
Tru64 UNIX, and ULTRIX.
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