Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

From: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: John Klos <john(at)ziaspace(dot)com>, port-vax(at)netbsd(dot)org, vax(at)openbsd(dot)org, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD
Date: 2014-06-25 17:50:47
Message-ID: CAM-w4HMqNUE01WrSZE4yntFbu2GjhENJGXVCKFXt5n6nf3gkxQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Well, the fact that initdb didn't produce a working configuration and
> that make installcheck failed to work properly are bad. But, yeah,
> it's not totally broken.

Yeah it seems to me that these kinds of autoconf and initdb tests
failing are different from a platform where the spinlock code doesn't
work. It's actually valuable to have a platform where people routinely
trigger those configuration values. If they're broken there's not much
value in carrying them.

--
greg

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