Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2014-07-01 23:21:07 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> Also if you're struggling for Sun buildfarm animals, recent versions of QEMU >> will quite happily install and run later versions of 32-bit Solaris over >> serial, and 2.0 even manages to give you a cgthree framebuffer for the full >> experience.
> Well. I have to admit I'm really not interested in investing that much > time in something I've no stake in. If postgres developers have to put > emulated machines to develop features something imo went seriously > wrong. That's more effort than at least I'm willing to spend. Perhaps more to the point, I have no faith at all that an emulator will mimic multiprocessor timing behavior to the level of detail needed to tell whether memory-barrier-related logic works. See the VAX discussion just a couple days ago. 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