Call for port testing on fmgr changes
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-ports@postgreSQL.org
Cc: Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com, Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net>
Date: 2000-06-14T16:55:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I have finished updating about half of Postgres' builtin functions to the new style of fmgr interface. At this point, everything that accepts any pass-by-value datatypes is converted; the remaining work is for functions that use only pass-by-reference datatypes, and therefore receive only pointer arguments. This should already take care of function-call-related portability problems on many platforms. In particular these changes should eliminate the need for Ryan Kirkpatrick's Linux/Alpha patches, and should also solve the known problems on PPC builds with optimization higher than -O0. We might be able to increase the optimization level on other platforms that have had trouble with function-call optimizations, too. I'd like to get the current code tested by some people with Alphas (or other 64-bit platforms), PPCs, and anything else that has had optimization-related problems. You can get the 7.1 development code from our CVS server, or use the current daily-snapshot tarball (see ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/). regards, tom lane