Re: [PATCHES] AIX FAQ addition

2005-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course, the patch is more than somewhat strange anyway. I don't think > it should be applied unless we actually know what's going on. Yeah. Just the first question it raises is: what else is broken, and where? regards, tom

Re: [PATCHES] AIX FAQ addition

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Christopher Browne wrote: Actually, there is a reason NOT to apply the patch in general on all platforms; it introduces logic (an if {} else {} statement) in a place where there wasn't previously one, which *presumably* slows things down somewhat. I don't know if the memcpy() calls are invoke

Re: [PATCHES] AIX FAQ addition

2005-11-04 Thread Christopher Browne
> Chris Browne wrote: >> We haven't seen any agreement emerge as to what is causing AIX 5.3 ML3 >> to fail to successfully build the release candidates. >> >> However, a patch has emerged (thanks, Seneca!) that does allow it to >> work, and which I'd expect to be portable (better still!). >> >> W

Re: [PATCHES] AIX FAQ addition

2005-11-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > Chris Browne wrote: > > We haven't seen any agreement emerge as to what is causing AIX 5.3 ML3 > > to fail to successfully build the release candidates. > > > > However, a patch has emerged (thanks, Seneca!) that does allow it to > > work, and which I'd expect to be p

Re: [PATCHES] AIX FAQ addition

2005-11-04 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Chris Browne wrote: > We haven't seen any agreement emerge as to what is causing AIX 5.3 ML3 > to fail to successfully build the release candidates. > > However, a patch has emerged (thanks, Seneca!) that does allow it to > work, and which I'd expect to be portable (better still!). > > We are sti

Re: [PATCHES] AIX FAQ addition

2005-11-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Patch applied. Thanks. --- Chris Browne wrote: > We haven't seen any agreement emerge as to what is causing AIX 5.3 ML3 > to fail to successfully build the release candidates. > > However, a patch has emerged (thanks, Sen

[PATCHES] AIX FAQ addition

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Browne
We haven't seen any agreement emerge as to what is causing AIX 5.3 ML3 to fail to successfully build the release candidates. However, a patch has emerged (thanks, Seneca!) that does allow it to work, and which I'd expect to be portable (better still!). We are still actively pursuing why it breaks