Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > But I really strongly object to re-introducing alpha support. Having to > care about data dependency barriers is a huge pita, and it complicates > code for everyone. And we'd have to investigate a lot of code to > actually make it work reliably. For what benefit?
I hear you, but that's only an issue for multi-CPU machines no? If we just say "we doubt this works on multi-CPU Alphas, if it breaks you get to keep both pieces", then we're basically at the same place we were before. To be clear: I don't want to do the work you're speaking of, either. But if we have people who were successfully using PG on Alphas before, the coherency issues must not have been a problem for them. Can't we just (continue to) ignore the issue? > If we really were to re-introduce this we'd need an actual developer > machine to run tests against. I would certainly expect that we'd insist on active support from the Alpha community; we're not going to continue to do this in an open-loop fashion. 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