Re: [PATCHES] Reorganization of spinlock defines

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> > Well, the problem was that we defined HAS_TEST_AND_SET inside the ports.
> > I guess we could splatter a test for Itanium and Opterion in every port
> > that could possibly use it, but then again, if we fall back to not
> > finding it for some reason, we don't get a report because we silently
> > fall back to semaphores.  That's what has me worried, that if we don't
> > do it, we will not know what platforms really aren't working properly.
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> >From what I understand, "not working properly" means slow, not broken, no?
> Which means ppl could submit a problem report and it could be fixed for
> v7.4.1 ... its not so much  'not working properly' as it is 'not optimal
> performance' ...

Right, though I am not sure people will know _slow_ configuration vs.
PostgreSQL is slow.

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