Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

Robert Haas <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:47:28 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax,gmane.os.openbsd.vax,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> 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.

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