On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com> wrote: > Well, I have to ask this question: why should there be any "vax-specific > code"? What facilities beyond what POSIX with the threading extensions > offers on a modern system do you really need? Why?
We have a spinlock implementation. When spinlocks are not available, we have to fall back to using semaphores, which is much slower. -- 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
