{"id":647,"date":"2005-01-09T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=647"},"modified":"2005-01-09T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-09T16:37:19","slug":"good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Good news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he last RC4 of Postgres 8.0 is running on (yes, you heard that right) the Playstation 2! From the Postgres-General mailing-list:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tested RC4 on Linux on the PlayStation 2 again<br \/>\n(compare<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/archives.postgresql.org\/pgsql-hackers\/2004-08\/msg01339.php).<\/p>\n<p>With &#8211;disable-spinlocks everything but the two floating point tests<br \/>\nsucceeds (regression output and diffs attached).<\/p>\n<p>The Playstation 2 hardware manuals confirm that the FPU has<br \/>\nno support for NaN and +\/-Inf. That explains the regression diffs.<br \/>\n(EE Core User&#8217;s Manual Version 5, p. 153)<\/p>\n<p>In summary one might conclude that PostgreSQL 8 works on Linux on the<br \/>\nPlaystation 2 as far as the hardware supports it.\n<\/p>\n<p>Now might be a good time to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/playstation2-linux.com\/\">Playstation 2 and the PS2-Linux<\/a> kit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last RC4 of Postgres 8.0 is running on (yes, you heard that right) the Playstation 2! From the Postgres-General mailing-list: &nbsp;Hi, I&#8217;ve tested RC4 on Linux on the PlayStation 2 again (compare http:\/\/archives.postgresql.org\/pgsql-hackers\/2004-08\/msg01339.php). With &#8211;disable-spinlocks everything but the two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}