I wrote: > The following proposal should improve performance substantially when > there is contention for a lock, but it creates no portability risks > ...
I have committed changes to implement this proposal. I'm not seeing any significant performance difference on pgbench on my single-CPU system ... but pgbench is I/O bound anyway on this hardware, so that's not very surprising. I'll be interested to see what other people observe. (Tatsuo, care to rerun that 1000-client test?) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org