Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD
Robert Haas <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:47:28 -0400
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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. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company