Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Enabling atomics on ARM64

2017-03-10 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Andres Freund wrote: > Hi, > > On 2017-03-08 19:18:04 -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> I'd like to offer a forward port from a change I'm contributing >> the Greenplum code base over here > > I think the change makes sense.

[HACKERS] [PATCH] Enabling atomics on ARM64

2017-03-08 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! I'd like to offer a forward port from a change I'm contributing the Greenplum code base over here: https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/pull/1983 While it is true that 64 bit atomics are mostly a no-op for Postgres right now, perhaps this patch could still be useful. To make it easier to