[As part of my discussion with Jeff Johnson at RedHat regarding rpms, he
posed the following question, which I am unable to answer. His e-mail
address is jbj@redhat.com.]

Jeff Johnson wrote:
 
> Do you know if 6.5.1 will run on alpha? We (Red Hat) will probably
> put out an errata for postgresql as soon as it runs on alpha.
> 
> My latest information is that there is still a problem with spinlocks on
> alpha. If acceess to hardware is a problem, then we might be able to help.

Thanks to all.  I saw the advice to turn off optimization (-o0), and
already forwarded that info to him.

Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio

Thu, 08 Jul 1999 12:42:09 -0400
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Postgresql 6.5.1 and alpha -- a question from RedHat