Tom Lane wrote: > > If that's not worth the trouble, would it be a good idea to have > > configure disable spinlocks automagically on unsupported platforms? > > It used to do that. We deliberately changed this in 8.0 so that > people would be aware that they were losing performance, and would be > motivated to look into possible solutions.
Actually, the previous port report for 7.4 already required explicit disabling: needs new config.guess, --disable-spinlocks (We fixed that first point anyway.) -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]