Tom Lane writes:
> I'm not actually convinced that Sparc has a real need for -fPIC, either,
> since Lamar could not reproduce Tom's problem, and the GOT sizes I can
> measure on x86 are an order of magnitude smaller than the Sparc limit.
> I pushed out the change quickly because of the impending 7.3.3 deadline,
> but I'm more than half inclined to revert it.
If we don't have reproduceable evidence then we shouldn't play around with
these things in a minor release.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net