Re: Isn't non-TEST_AND_SET code long dead?

Yank her ... 

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> I was bemused to notice this afternoon that the backend does not build
> if you have not defined HAVE_TEST_AND_SET; furthermore, this has been
> true at least since 6.4.  (slock() is compiled anyway, and it calls
> TAS(), which will be an undefined symbol.)  From the lack of
> complaints we can deduce that no one has run Postgres on a
> non-TEST_AND_SET platform in quite a while.
> 
> Kinda makes me wonder what other bit-rot has set in in the non-TAS
> code, and whether we ought not just rip it out rather than try to
> "maintain" exceedingly delicate code that's gone untested for years.
> bufmgr.c, in particular, has behavior that's nontrivially different
> when HAVE_TEST_AND_SET isn't defined --- who wants to promise that
> that still works?
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

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