Re: memory barriers (was: Yes, WaitLatch is vulnerable to weak-memory-ordering bugs)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: memory barriers (was: Yes, WaitLatch is vulnerable to weak-memory-ordering bugs)
Date: 2011-09-22 15:44:58
Message-ID: 1316706133-sup-5996@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue sep 22 12:18:47 -0300 2011:

> I've also added a lengthy README file to the patch that attempts to
> explain how barriers should be used in PostgreSQL coding.

Very enlightening, thanks. Note a typo "laods".

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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