Andrew Dunstan wrote: > On my blog Peter Geoghegan mentioned something about "atomic fetch-and-add" > being useful here, but I'm not quite sure what that's referring to. Perhaps > someone can give me a pointer.
The point, I think, is that without atomic instructions you have to hold a lock while incrementing the counters. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
