Re: [PATCH] PostgreSQL fails to build with 32bit MinGW-w64

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-12-14T18:13:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Remove troublesome Asserts in cost_mergejoin().

  2. Enable building with the Mingw64 compiler.

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Uh, wow.  That really is pretty insane.  How is anyone supposed to
> write sensible code around that non-API?

Usability seems to be very low on the gcc project's list of goals
these days.

Personally I think this sort of thing might be fine if it were triggered
by -ffast-math or something like that.  But as a default behavior it's
entirely ridiculous.

			regards, tom lane