Re: race condition for drop schema cascade?

Jim Buttafuoco wrote:

>Andrew/all
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>I have not seen any problems on my MIPS systems since the rebuild ext3 (I ran badblocks during fs creation).  I should

>have the alpha running about soon, the disk died and I am waiting a replacement.  I do believe there is a floating 
>point problem with older alpha's out there.  The seems to have a problem with INFINITY and NAN's. I did some checking

>on the net and the problem seems know (with no solution).  Maybe something can go into the readme or such.  If anyone

>is interested in looking at this for > pg8.0 I can give SSH access in a week or so.
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I doubt that either of the problems (FP on old Alpha or failing 'drop 
schema cascade + drop tablespace')  is a showstopper. Maybe the 
'platforms supported' notes should carry a mention.

cheers

andrew