Tom Lane wrote:
> This seems pretty unworkable from a packaging standpoint. Even if
> you teach autoconf how to tell which model it's running on, there's
> no guarantee that the resulting executables will be used on that same
> machine.
A number of packages in the video area (and perhaps others) do compile
"sub-architecture" specific variants. This could be done for
PostgreSQL, but you'd probably need to show some pretty convincing
performance numbers before people start the packaging effort.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/