| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 9.4 broken on alpha |
| Date: | 2015-09-01 20:24:28 |
| Message-ID: | 55E6097C.8080203@commandprompt.com |
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On 09/01/2015 01:18 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think we've probably beat this to death. Nobody here believes that
>> it's sane to try to support Alpha without access to hardware, and no
>> offer of hardware has been forthcoming. If one were to materialize,
>> we could usefully have a debate about whether it's worth doing ...
>
> I agree. I can't believe how seriously Alpha support has been debated
> here. I think that the Linux implementation is simply very limited, or
> broken.
It isn't even made any more. Alpha is dead except for obscure hobbyists.
We aren't Debian, we should be much more stringent on the platforms we
support.
Sincerely,
JD
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