Re: [HACKERS] dec alpha/64bit stuff

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: brett@work.chicken.org (Brett McCormick)
Cc: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, pgsql-hackers@hub.org, scrappy@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-08T23:15:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> On Sat, 7 March 1998, at 18:10:36, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > OK, I have an idea.  Contact Marc, scrappy@postgresql.org.  Have him
> > give you a login account to postgresql.org.  Use cvs to pull snapshots
> > by date.  Compile and run initdb on several dates,  and by process of
> > elimination, find out the day that alpha broke.
> 
> That's what I've been thinking of, but I haven't had a chance to get
> the cvs archive yet.

As I said in another post, by binary search, he meant try Jan 15, and
then Dec 15 or Feb 15 depending on whether Jan 15 worked.  Same thing I
expect you were going to do when you could get to the cvs archive.

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