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Re: Remove last traces of HPPA support

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

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From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-10-20T02:44:31Z
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 4:21 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> We removed support for the HP-UX OS in v16, but left in support
> for the PA-RISC architecture, mainly because I thought that its
> spinlock mechanism is weird enough to be a good stress test
> for our spinlock infrastructure.  It still is that, but my
> one remaining HPPA machine has gone to the great recycle heap
> in the sky.  There seems little point in keeping around nominal
> support for an architecture that we can't test and no one is
> using anymore.
>
> Hence, the attached removes the remaining support for HPPA.

+1

Commits

  1. Require memory barrier support.

  2. Require compiler barrier support.

  3. Remove --disable-atomics, require 32 bit atomics.

  4. Remove --disable-spinlocks.

  5. Remove support for HPPA (a/k/a PA-RISC) architecture.

  6. Add a basic atomic ops API abstracting away platform/architecture details.