Re: Time to retire Windows XP buildfarm host?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Time to retire Windows XP buildfarm host?
Date: 2016-12-24 00:12:51
Message-ID: 1653.1482538371@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> ... and miraculously it has fixed itself.

> And it failed again today, once.

> Today I noticed that it's running gcc 4.5.0. But for the 4.5 branch,
> the GCC guys put out a few releases before abandoning it, and there are
> some compiler segmentation faults fixed in some of these releases,

Meh... did they fix any nondeterministic bugs? My money is on the
hardware getting flaky.

> I think it'd be worthwhile to upgrade to the latest in that branch.

Still, that might be worth doing if it's not too painful.

regards, tom lane

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