On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:

: What stops postgresql from compiling on alpha and how difficult
: would it be to port it?

It needs a LOT of work.  It's riddled with LP64 misalignment problems, which
are only _partly_ addressed by some work for Linux/Alpha, and it also needs
some simple locking fixes (which I've done).  It's not an ELF problem; it's
the fact that pgsql is far from LP64-aware.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)