On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 07:51:32PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2014-06-27 13:12:31 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > I don't personally object to dropping Alpha, but when this was > > discussed back in October, Stefan did: > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/52616373.10...@kaltenbrunner.cc > > Ah, right. I still am in favor of dropping it because I don't it is > likely to work, but, as a compromise, we could remove only the Tru64 > variant? Openbsd + gcc is much less of a hassle.
Retaining Alpha support means placing data dependency barriers (Linux kernel term) where the Alpha memory model requires them. I doubt enough users will stress Alpha builds for us to distinguish a missing barrier from hardware flakiness, so we'd never find out whether we did it right. That's why I favor removing Alpha-specific code completely, and it is an OS-independent and compiler-independent motive. -- Noah Misch EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
