Re: Atomics hardware support table & supported architectures

On 2014-06-15 03:12:21 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At this year developer's meeting we'd discussed the atomics abstraction
> which is necessary for some future improvements. We'd concluded that a
> overview over the hardware capabilities of the supported platforms would
> be helpful. I've started with that at:
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Atomics
> 
> Does somebody want other columns in there?
> 
> From that and previous discussions
> (e.g. http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20131013004658.GG4056218%40alap2.anarazel.de
> ) I think we should definitely remove some platforms:

> 3) sparcv8: Last released model 1997.

Just as a bit of context: < sparcv9 support got dropped from solaris
10. In 2005.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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