Re: RC1?

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-11-14T05:46:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Neil Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Anyone care about the PlayStation 2 port ;=) ?  I can get Permaine to
> > > retest if so.  Slightly more seriously, we did see a recent report of
> > > trouble on S/390 Linux, but the complainant didn't follow up...
> > 
> > I put an S/390 patch into current CVS --- too risky for 7.3 because it
> > played with the Power PC ASM instructions. I think we can assume that
> > port will not work for 7.3.
> 
> Erm, why? The S/390 patch you applied was just a performance
> optimization, AFAIK. I tried to track down the problem that the user
> reported with S/390, but it appeared that the machine in question had
> some serious hardware/software problems, so I gave up.

Oh, I was not sure.  I thought it had to do with compile and .asm tags,
and I felt it was too late to take such risks if it could effect larger
working platforms.  Were they using non-ASM for S/390 before the patch? 
I don't remember.

I guess there was another person who had hardware trouble.

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