Re: Call for port testing on fmgr changes

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> I have finished updating about half of Postgres' builtin functions to
> the new style of fmgr interface.  At this point, everything that accepts
> any pass-by-value datatypes is converted; the remaining work is for
> functions that use only pass-by-reference datatypes, and therefore
> receive only pointer arguments.

    Cool! I need to study up a bit on fmgr, but anything that help
Linux/Alpha is a good thing. :)

> This should already take care of function-call-related portability
> problems on many platforms.  In particular these changes should
> eliminate the need for Ryan Kirkpatrick's Linux/Alpha patches, and

    Not all of my Linux/Alpha patches are related to fmgr, there are a
few related to s_lock and such (which can probably be put into the source
tree with #ifdefs). But this should take care of the majority of the
Linux/Alpha patch.
    I will download the snapshot today at work (where I have "real"
bandwidth :) and test things out this weekend. I should have a report by
Monday. Maybe I will even have a patch that can be safely applied to
the development source tree. :) TTYL.

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