> What stops postgresql from compiling on alpha and how difficult
> would it be to port it? I,ve just noticed this whilst building
> this package on a i386 box and don't understand the comment
> in the Makefile "Needs ELF clue".

I posted something about this a couple of weeks ago, including patches
to get the source to compile--it still doesn't work at all.  Possibly
due to the LP64 problems that Todd referred to.  I believe my posts were
under the subject line "Some assembly required" or something like that.
I believe now that that problem is actually sometime else--but I haven't
had time to work on it at all since then.

-allen