X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A33CD1B51A for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:59:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10300-05 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:58:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (unknown [192.204.191.242]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B49D1B541 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:58:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9MMwuit024730; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:58:56 -0400 (EDT) To: pgsql-docs@postgreSQL.org Cc: Brian Gallew Subject: Why do we have "gcc default optimizations" docs? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:58:56 -0400 Message-ID: <24729.1066863536@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200310/33 X-Sequence-Number: 2053 Does anyone remember the reason why we have this chapter in our docs? http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/compiler.html I have a suspicion that this is left over from some ancient time when it was actually necessary to hack gcc in order to build Postgres successfully. I can't imagine why anyone would do this today, or why they would use our documentation about it if they did want to do it. The info is likely horribly obsolete anyway. (There have been no non-markup changes in the source file since it was put into our CVS tree, nearly six years ago.) In short: I wanna remove it. Any objections? regards, tom lane