Re: Call for platforms

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@kpnQwest.no>

Cc: lockhart@fourpalms.org, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, scrappy@hub.org, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, ask@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il, thomas@pgsql.com

Date: 2001-04-02T06:49:53Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> > I've once again got a VAX that should be able to run PostgreSQL on
> > NetBSD/vax, so I hope to be able to help revitalize that port soon...
> It still works.  RC1 configures, compiles and runs on my VAX 4000/500
> with NetBSD-current -- but the regression tests give a lot of failures
> because the VAX doesn't have IEEE math, leading to different rounding
> and erroneous assumptions about the limits of floating point values.
> I'll be looking at this more closely.

Great! Will put it on the list :)

                     - Thomas