Re: 9.4 broken on alpha

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> The best argument for continuing to support Alpha is probably that
> Linux does.  I don't know how they do that.

My sneaking suspicion is that they don't very well.  In particular,
unless I misunderstand things fundamentally, the coherency issues
would be invisible without a multi-CPU machine, and there are probably
not that many multi-CPU Alphas still alive.  The kernel could well be
full of bugs that don't manifest on single-CPU Alphas.

I also note that nominal support is quite different from being production
grade.  Red Hat, for instance, never supported Alpha hardware (at least
not while I was there), and I doubt that any other commercial Linux
support provider has supported it in a long time either.  If there were
bugs, how many people would notice or care?
        regards, tom lane