Re: [HACKERS] Patches for Postgresql on Linux/Alpha!

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> OK, after a *real* quick once-over, it certainly seems that 99% of the
> bulk is changes for the fmgr interface problem (although it looks like
> int32s were changed to Datum also?  Is that really needed on Alpha?)
>
> I see a few hacks on time_t that I am worried about; those will almost
> certainly cause problems for other architectures if not ifdef'd.

    I have hardly looked at the patch in detail at all, so I can't
respond to your specific observation at this time. I just wanted something
that made at least alpha work out the door first, and then go back and
review the patch in detail to add #ifdef (__alpha__) as needed.

> As I commented before, I would like to think about a different solution
> to the fmgr problem for 6.6, so I'd like to hold off committing any of
> these fmgr changes into the current tree until we have a consensus on
> what the best approach is.  But we could commit them into the 6.5 branch
> after sufficient testing.  That would be nice for PPC folks as well, as
> I'll bet these changes would let them run with more than -O0 ...

    I never asked for these patches to be put in the pgsql source tree
in anyway. This is just so people who want to run 6.5.1 on Linux/Alpha
will be able to, with a relatively clean and well working binary. The
patches for the pgsql source tree will be trickling in over the next few
months as I evaluate the alpha patches in detail.

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