On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes: >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 2015-09-01 14:40:36 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >>>> The best argument for continuing to support Alpha is probably that >>>> Linux does. > >>> Not sure why that's an argument? I mean linux supports architectures >>> without an MMU, but we'll surely never? > >> I'm just saying that, we're arguing that we can't do it, but they're >> doing it, so presumably we could find a way if we were really >> determined. I'm not saying that it's a good use of time, but Linux >> seems to think it is. > > 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 ...
Yep. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
