Building PostgreSQL on IBM pSeries/SLES 10

It turns out that compiling PostgreSQL on IBM's pSeries isn't that straightforward. Compiling PostgreSQL is very easy, just do a configure; make install and your job is done. However, Red Hat and SuSE on IBM's pSeries are multiarch platforms with 64-bit kernels and 32-bit userspace, capable of running and building 64-bit applications. To build PostgreSQL you have to specify some extra compiler flags. On SLES/ppc64 we had success with the following settings, passed to make:

make CC="gcc -m64" LDREL="-r -melf64ppc"

PostgreSQL development with git

After getting an account from Peter Eisentraut i've just started to publish my current development efforts regarding PostgreSQL on git.postgresql.org. I found this a very neat idea, since developers are able to track development from other people in an easy way, without sending huge patches around. Also big patches are hard to read and if you are able to track development live, reviewing a new functionality gets a lot easier. I've never used git before, so let's see how it works.