Re: LWLock/ShmemIndex startup question

Tom Lane wrote:
> Claudio Natoli <claudio.natoli@memetrics.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane writes:
> >> I'm not sure there's any need for
> >> src/backend/port/win32/sema.c at all.
> 
> > (Do you have any idea on the historical
> > context of this code? I wondered as to, if we have no win32 port, why there
> > would be a seemingly good-to-go sema replacement?)
> 
> [cvs is your friend...]  It appears to have been added as part of the
> MinGW porting work last May.  I don't have much faith in it; as far as
> I heard the MinGW port never got further than making the client-side
> code work, and so this file has no real-world testing.

Right, that is from PeerDirect's Win32 port, with a little cleanup.  It
should work fine, or we can wack it around.

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