| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Sending out a request for more buildfarm animals? |
| Date: | 2014-05-06 16:29:57 |
| Message-ID: | 20140506162957.GT6018@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Andres Freund wrote:
> > > * sparc 32bit
> >
> > Do we really care about sparc 32bit at this point? You're talking a
> > 10-year-old machine, there.
>
> I personally don't really, but the last time it came up significant
> parts of community opinionated the other way. And I'd rather have it
> tested and actually supported than supposedly supported.
The thing is that a machine as weird as Sparc uncovers strange failures
that don't show up in other architectures. For instance, spoonbill
(sparc64 IIRC) has turned up rather interesting numbers of problems.
I think it's useful to have such a thing in the buildfarm.
--
Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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