Re: Re: Call for platforms

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mark Knox <segfault@hardline.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-29T04:06:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Mark Knox <segfault@hardline.org> writes:
> I don't think this solution would be valid on many other platforms.

Au contraire --- the ARM is the first platform I've heard of that does
not think sizeof(ItemPointerData) is 6.  Else we'd have seen this
regress test fail before.

> Well, this patch seems to produce attlens of 6 as desired, but it
> causes many (13) of the regression tests to fail. Do you want to see
> the regression.diffs?

Please.

			regards, tom lane