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Re: [HACKERS] dec alpha/64bit stuff

Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>

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From: Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, brett@work.chicken.org, pgsql-hackers@hub.org, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-03-08T10:40:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> OK, I have an idea.  Contact Marc, scrappy@postgresql.org.  Have him
> give you a login account to postgresql.org.  Use cvs to pull snapshots
> by date.  Compile and run initdb on several dates,  and by process of
> elimination, find out the day that alpha broke.
> 
> We can then analyze the patches for that day and find the problem.  I
> assume 6.2.1 worked for you, and that was October 17th.  Go from there
> to the 6.3 release and find the date of failure.
> 
> With initdb problems, there is really no good way to debug problems like
> this.

Another suggestion: use a binary search to find the date it broke. Will 
save you a lot of time :)

Maarten

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