Re: 9.4 broken on alpha

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>>> On 2015-09-01 14:40:36 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> The best argument for continuing to support Alpha is probably that
>>>> Linux does.
>
>>> Not sure why that's an argument? I mean linux supports architectures
>>> without an MMU, but we'll surely never?
>
>> I'm just saying that, we're arguing that we can't do it, but they're
>> doing it, so presumably we could find a way if we were really
>> determined.  I'm not saying that it's a good use of time, but Linux
>> seems to think it is.
>
> I think we've probably beat this to death.  Nobody here believes that
> it's sane to try to support Alpha without access to hardware, and no
> offer of hardware has been forthcoming.  If one were to materialize,
> we could usefully have a debate about whether it's worth doing ...

Yep.

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