Re: Proposal to add a QNX 6.5 port to PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Proposal to add a QNX 6.5 port to PostgreSQL
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Msg-id CAM3SWZT_yzE5PE50r9GTrwh7dnM5LXXJmMFfOcvJO9Hh9oZRSw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Proposal to add a QNX 6.5 port to PostgreSQL  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think a buildfarm animal that doesn't run the actual upstream
>> code is a good idea. That'll make it a lot harder to understand what's
>> going on when something breaks after a commit.  It'd also require the
>> custom patches being rebased ontop of $branch before every run...
>
> hm. oh well.  maybe if there was a separate page for custom builds
> (basically, an unsupported section).

I think that's a bad idea. The QNX OS seems to be mostly used in
safety-critical systems; it has a microkernel design. I think it would
be particularly bad to have iffy support for something like that.


-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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