On 07/08/2011 04:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> writes: >> Patch attached. > >> Beware that it needs at least GCC 4.1, otherwise it'll use a per-partition >> spin lock instead of "locked xadd" to increment the shared counters. > > That's already sufficient reason to reject the patch. Not everyone > uses gcc, let alone very recent versions of gcc.
hmm - 4.1.0 was released in february 2006, which will be much older than even the 5 year support policy we have on pg when 9.2 will be released, not sure how much it will matter if we don't support as specific optimization on a gcc that old.. Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
