Re: regression failure on latest CVS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: regression failure on latest CVS
Date
Msg-id 200507271352.j6RDqxa24489@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: regression failure on latest CVS  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote:
> 
> >In the meantime would'nt it be nice to try to understand what happens and
> >correct it?
> >
> >I'm a bit afraid that 8.1 is not used on unixware because people don't
> >have/want the patch installed.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> All the evidence is that this is a compiler bug. The apparent workaround 
> for now would be to compile with optimisation turned off. Or use another 
> compiler - gcc is available isn't it?

The SCO compiler was a buggy mess with any optimization turned on 10
years ago, and it still is.  I see no reason our community should waste
time helping fix such a buggy compiler.  If it was buggy for the past 10
years, I think it will be buggy for the next 10 too.  We should just
turn off optimization for that compiler.

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