Remove IRIX port.

Development of IRIX has been discontinued, and support is scheduled
to end in December of 2013.  Therefore, there will be no supported
versions of this operating system by the time PostgreSQL 9.4 is
released.  Furthermore, we have no maintainer for this platform.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 75 deletions

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/dfunc.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/dfunc.sgml
index 8e6c95d15c5..c24ed374213 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/dfunc.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/dfunc.sgml
@@ -101,22 +101,6 @@ ld -b -o foo.sl foo.o
    </varlistentry>
 
    <varlistentry>
-    <term><systemitem class="osname">IRIX</></term>
-    <indexterm><primary>IRIX</><secondary>shared library</></>
-    <listitem>
-     <para>
-      <acronym>PIC</acronym> is the default, no special compiler
-      options are necessary.  The linker option to produce shared
-      libraries is <option>-shared</option>.
-<programlisting>
-cc -c foo.c
-ld -shared -o foo.so foo.o
-</programlisting>
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-   </varlistentry>
-
-   <varlistentry>
     <term><systemitem class="osname">Linux</></term>
     <indexterm><primary>Linux</><secondary>shared library</></>
     <listitem>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index fa9ef177732..2bdb3f10b30 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1637,8 +1637,8 @@ PostgreSQL, contrib and HTML documentation successfully made. Ready to install.
     shared libraries.  The systems on which this is
     <emphasis>not</emphasis> necessary include
     <systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</>,
-    <systemitem class="osname">HP-UX</>, <systemitem
-    class="osname">IRIX</>, <systemitem class="osname">Linux</>,
+    <systemitem class="osname">HP-UX</>,
+    <systemitem class="osname">Linux</>,
     <systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</>, <systemitem
     class="osname">OpenBSD</>, <systemitem class="osname">Tru64
     UNIX</> (formerly <systemitem class="osname">Digital UNIX</>), and
@@ -1962,7 +1962,7 @@ kill `cat /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`
   <para>
    <productname>PostgreSQL</> can be expected to work on these operating
    systems: Linux (all recent distributions), Windows (Win2000 SP4 and later),
-   FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, AIX, HP/UX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64 Unix,
+   FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Tru64 Unix,
    and UnixWare.  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
@@ -2532,62 +2532,6 @@ PHSS_30849  s700_800 u2comp/be/plugin library Patch
    </para>
   </sect2>
 
-  <sect2 id="installation-notes-irix">
-   <title>IRIX</title>
-
-   <indexterm zone="installation-notes-irix">
-    <primary>IRIX</primary>
-    <secondary>installation on</secondary>
-   </indexterm>
-
-   <para>
-    PostgreSQL has been reported to run successfully on MIPS r8000,
-    r10000 (both ip25 and ip27) and r12000(ip35) processors, running
-    IRIX 6.5.5m, 6.5.12, 6.5.13, and 6.5.26 with MIPSPro compilers
-    version 7.30, 7.3.1.2m, 7.3, and 7.4.4m.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    You will need the MIPSPro full ANSI C compiler.  There are
-    problems trying to build with GCC.  It is a known GCC bug (not
-    fixed as of version 3.0) related to using functions that return
-    certain kinds of structures. This bug affects functions like
-    <function>inet_ntoa</>, <function>inet_lnaof</>, <function>inet_netof</>, <function>inet_makeaddr</>,
-    and <function>semctl</>.  It is supposed to be fixed by forcing
-    code to link those functions with libgcc, but this has not been
-    tested yet.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    It is known that version 7.4.1m of the MIPSPro compiler generates
-    incorrect code.  The symptom is <quote>invalid primary checkpoint
-    record</quote> when trying to start the database.)  Version 7.4.4m
-    is OK; the status of intermediate versions is uncertain.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    There may be a compilation problem like the following:
-<screen>
-cc-1020 cc: ERROR File = pqcomm.c, Line = 427
-  The identifier "TCP_NODELAY" is undefined.
-
-                if (setsockopt(port->sock, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY,
-</screen>
-    Some versions include TCP definitions
-    in <filename>sys/xti.h</filename>, so it is necessary to
-    add <literal>#include &lt;sys/xti.h&gt;</literal>
-    in <filename>src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c</> and in
-    <filename>src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c</>.  If you encounter
-    this, please let us know so we can develop a proper fix.
-   </para>
-
-   <para>
-    In the regression tests, there might be some low-order-digit
-    differences in the geometry tests, depending on which FPU are you
-    using.  Any other error is cause for suspicion.
-   </para>
-  </sect2>
-
   <sect2 id="installation-notes-mingw">
    <title>MinGW/Native Windows</title>