Re: [HACKERS] postgres/alpha problems

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>> On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Pedro J. Lobo wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Brett McCormick wrote:
>> >
>> > >well, it looks like we're moving postgres to a linux machine, so I
>> > >won't be doing any more alpha debugging for a while (BTW, adjusting
>> > >some types on the attribute struct to make it 64-bit aligned had no
>> > >effect) unless someone has some suggestions for me to try (aside from
>> > >the snapshot thing, I figure anyone with an alpha can do that.  let me
>> > >know if I should).  I haven't given up, however my free time is
>> > >limited and obviously I can't do it on my employer's penny anymore
>> > >(beleive it or not, I did have permission), and I'd also like to work
>> > >on pl/perl & odbc stuff.
>> >
>> > Ok, I could do the cvs stuff. No promises about time, though. Marc? How
>> > can we do it?
>>
>>     *pop head up*  Do what?  Only way of grabbing the current source
>> tree is via CVSup...I could make a tarball of the CVS repository available
>> as of the time of the v6.3 release, if that helps...?
>
>He needs a login to postgresql, and do cvs extracts based on date with
>the -D option.  He will test Jan 15, and go a month forward or backward,
>until he finds the date that initdb fails.

It seems that I don't need such a thing. I am using cvsup right now, and
it seems to work well... except that it's been running for more than an
hour and I only have the 'COPYRIGHT' file :-( The overseas connection is
terribly slow. At night (between 0:00 and 7:00 MET, which is 18:00 - 1:00
EST, I think) it goes better, but that way I could only get (and try) one
snapshot each day. Slow, but... I am downloading now the Jan 1st tree.
We'll see what happens.

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