Re: 7.2 is slow?

> With the freshly retrieved current source, now PostgreSQL is running
> fine on an AIX 5L box. Thanks Tom.
> 
> BTW, I have done some benchmarking using pgbench on this machine and
> found that 7.2 is almost two times slower than 7.1. The hardware is a
> 4way machine. Since I thought that 7.2 improves the performance for ^^^^
> SMP machines, I'm now wondering why 7.2 is so slow.

Ewe.  I will remind people that this multi-cpu setup is exactly the type
of machine we wanted to speed up with the new light-weight locking code
that reduced spinlock looping.

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