Re: RC1?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane writes:
> >> We can't just wait around indefinitely for port reports that may or may
> >> not ever appear.  In any case, most of the "<7.3" entries in the list
> >> seem to be various flavors of *BSD; I think it's unlikely we broke
> >> those ...
> 
> > Note that we have *zero* reports for any flavor of NetBSD and OpenBSD.
> 
> Maybe they're both dead platforms?  ;-)
> 
> Seriously, I agree with Marc's opinion that issuing an RC1 is the best
> way to flush out some more port reports.  I do not know what else we can
> do to get people off their duffs and onto last-minute testing.
> 
> > (Maybe you could get someone from Red Hat to confirm the remaining Linux
> > ports?)
> 
> Anyone care about the PlayStation 2 port ;=) ?  I can get Permaine to
> retest if so.  Slightly more seriously, we did see a recent report of
> trouble on S/390 Linux, but the complainant didn't follow up...

I put an S/390 patch into current CVS --- too risky for 7.3 because it
played with the Power PC ASM instructions. I think we can assume that
port will not work for 7.3.

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