On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > It makes for a cleaner commit history if you push concurrently into > all the branches you intend to patch. That also gives more buildfarm > runs, which seems like a good thing for this sort of patch. > > That is, assuming that we ought to backpatch at all, which to my mind > is debatable.
We're not going to backpatch the main patch to make spinlock primitives act as compiler barriers - or at least, I will object loudly. But what we're talking about here is a bug fix for Sparc. And surely we ought to back-patch that. -- 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