On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem with waiting for 7.5 is that we will have no error reporting > > when our non-spinlock code is being executed, and with Opteron/Itanium, > > it seems like a good time to get it working. > > Well, as long as you're prepared to reduce the list of known supported > platforms to zero as of 7.4beta3, and issue a fresh call for port reports. I didn't think we had done that yet ... had we? called for port reports, that is ... ? > But it seems to me that this is mostly a cosmetic cleanup and therefore > not the kind of thing to be doing late in beta. Couldn't we do > something that affects only Opteron/Itanium and doesn't take a chance > on breaking everything else? I just went through the whole patch myself, and as much as I like the overall simplification, I tend to agree with Tom here on questioning the requirement to do suck a massive change so late in the end cycle ... is there no smaller bandaid that can be applied to handle the Opteron/Itanium issue for v7.4, with the "cleanup patch" being applied right away after v7.4? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly