Re: [HACKERS] postgres/alpha problems

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

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: pjlobo@euitt.upm.es, brett@work.chicken.org, pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-03-10T16:56:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Pedro J. Lobo wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Brett McCormick wrote:
> > 
> > >well, it looks like we're moving postgres to a linux machine, so I
> > >won't be doing any more alpha debugging for a while (BTW, adjusting
> > >some types on the attribute struct to make it 64-bit aligned had no
> > >effect) unless someone has some suggestions for me to try (aside from
> > >the snapshot thing, I figure anyone with an alpha can do that.  let me
> > >know if I should).  I haven't given up, however my free time is
> > >limited and obviously I can't do it on my employer's penny anymore
> > >(beleive it or not, I did have permission), and I'd also like to work
> > >on pl/perl & odbc stuff.
> > 
> > Ok, I could do the cvs stuff. No promises about time, though. Marc? How
> > can we do it?
> 
> 	*pop head up*  Do what?  Only way of grabbing the current source
> tree is via CVSup...I could make a tarball of the CVS repository available
> as of the time of the v6.3 release, if that helps...?

He needs a login to postgresql, and do cvs extracts based on date with
the -D option.  He will test Jan 15, and go a month forward or backward,
until he finds the date that initdb fails.

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