Re: Remove last traces of HPPA support

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Remove last traces of HPPA support
Date: 2023-10-20 02:44:31
Message-ID: CA+hUKG+V7MTcC-zqV5COwd4BYGzjZF=-_pdRp=QRf=gsXqeVng@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 4:21 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)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

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