Re: Atomics hardware support table & supported architectures

On 2014-06-27 13:12:31 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I have noticed that most PostgreSQL committers seem for format their
> commit messages so that paragraphs are separated by a blank line, but
> you seem not to do that.  I find that less readable.

I'll change that.

> > Since there seems to be (unanimous?) support for dropping alpha and some
> > patches coming up that need to deal with platform dependent stuff it
> > seems sensible to do this first.

> I don't personally object to dropping Alpha, but when this was
> discussed back in October, Stefan did:
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/52616373.10004@kaltenbrunner.cc

Ah, right. I still am in favor of dropping it because I don't it is
likely to work, but, as a compromise, we could remove only the Tru64
variant? Openbsd + gcc is much less of a hassle.

> But I think he's rather in the minority anyway.

Looks like it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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