
> Mainly it's a schedule-driven thing.  I don't want to take any risk that
> a last-minute patch to work around AIX's broken compiler will break any
> other platforms.  If we had found this problem before beta cycle
> started, I would be more willing to say "let's try it and find out
> whether it works everywhere".
> 
> Yeah, it's paranoia, but considering that the whole thing is an exercise
> in covering up a "shouldn't happen" compiler bug, I think paranoia is
> not so unreasonable.

Thank you for going to all that trouble !! The fix, as it is in RC1 works great 
on AIX with both xlc and gcc.

Andreas 

Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:44:56 +0200
Zeugswetter Andreas SB  <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: AW: AW: Re: RELEASE STOPPER? nonportable int64 cons
	tant s in pg_crc.c