Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > I've been meaning to report this myself. > > In the 4 years that that particular line has been there, not once had > anyone else run into it on Gentoo until a couple months ago. > > And it isn't a case of end users missing it as we have arch testers > that test packages before marking them suitable for public consumption. > > Alpha is one of the arches.
This means that not once has anybody compiled in an Alpha in 4 years. > As for the dropped support, has the Alpha specific code been ripped > out? Would it still presumably run on Alpha? Yes, code has been ripped out. I would assume that it doesn't build at all anymore, but maybe what happens is you get spinlocks emulated with semaphores and it's only horribly slow. See http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6d488cb538c8761658f0f7edfc40cecc8c29f2d -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers