Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD
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Msg-id CAM-w4HMqNUE01WrSZE4yntFbu2GjhENJGXVCKFXt5n6nf3gkxQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD  (Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com>)
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the fact that initdb didn't produce a working configuration and
> that make installcheck failed to work properly are bad.  But, yeah,
> it's not totally broken.

Yeah it seems to me that these kinds of autoconf and initdb tests
failing are different from a platform where the spinlock code doesn't
work. It's actually valuable to have a platform where people routinely
trigger those configuration values. If they're broken there's not much
value in carrying them.


-- 
greg



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