On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> wrote: > * Robert Haas: >> and (c) architectures (like 32-bit x86) where ordinary 64-bit >> operations aren't atomic but special instructions (cmpxchg8b) can be >> used to get that behavior. > > FILD and FIST are atomic, too, and are supported by more > micro-architectures.
Yeah, I think you (or someone) mentioned the code. If someone wants to write the code, I'm game... -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
