Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2014-06-24 13:03:37 -0400, Noah Misch wrote: >> If a change has the potential to make some architectures give wrong >> answers only at odd times, that's a different kind of problem. For >> that reason, actively breaking Alpha is a good thing.
> Not sure what you mean with the 'actively breaking Alpha' statement? > That we should drop Alpha? +1. Especially with no buildfarm critter. Would anyone here care to bet even the price of a burger that Alpha isn't broken already? Even if we *had* an Alpha in the buildfarm, I'd have pretty small confidence in whether our code really worked on it. The buildfarm tests just don't stress heavily-concurrent behavior enough. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers