Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48ED0B5DBE5 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 08:17:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23303-04 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:17:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:23:56.081221 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.erwied.eu (mail.erwied.eu [85.214.80.157]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B07B5DBC3 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 08:17:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dslb-094-221-191-216.pools.arcor-ip.net ([94.221.191.216] helo=erwied.dns2go.com ident=mail) by mail.erwied.eu with esmtpsa (Exim 4.76#1) id 1QUcrg-00020s-7G ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:53:28 +0200 Received: from proxy.mbs-software.info ([87.234.32.189] helo=localhost) by erwied.dns2go.com with esmtpsa (Exim 4.76#1) id 1QUcre-00089k-Fg ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:53:26 +0200 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:53:23 +0200 From: Jochen Erwied Organization: Creative Chaos Computing X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <386582098.20110609125323@erwied.eu> To: Marti Raudsepp CC: muthu krishnan , Jochen Erwied , Subject: Re: Postgresql on itanium server In-Reply-To: References: <16710651848.20110609113019@erwied.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201106/101 X-Sequence-Number: 44034 Thursday, June 9, 2011, 12:45:06 PM you wrote: > As the URL mentions, you can build with CFLAGS=-ffast-math, that > should work for PostgreSQL too. I just tried this with the source for 9.0.4, at least with this version the build will not complete since there is a check in src/backend/utils/adt/date.c throwing an error if FAST_MATH is active. -- Jochen Erwied | home: jochen@erwied.eu +49-208-38800-18, FAX: -19 Sauerbruchstr. 17 | work: joe@mbs-software.de +49-2151-7294-24, FAX: -50 D-45470 Muelheim | mobile: jochen.erwied@vodafone.de +49-173-5404164