Re: RC1?

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>

From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-11-14T05:43:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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.

Cheers,

Neil

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