--On Thursday, September 11, 2003 23:46:56 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bruce sent me a copy of the patch, and it ****BREAKS**** UnixWare (If y'all care).
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?
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