| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: sinval synchronization considered harmful |
| Date: | 2011-07-21 20:02:35 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZCYDyRbM0bjHbL+uMJ5AchHx6vFGSsmXbRv=RKNe+Qfw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I think the real challenge is going to be testing. If anyone has a
>> machine with weak memory ordering they can give me access to, that
>> would be really helpful for flushing the bugs out of this stuff.
>
> There are multi-CPU PPCen in the buildfarm, or at least there were last
> time I broke the sinval code ;-). Note that testing on a single-core
> PPC will prove nothing.
Yeah, I was just thinking about that.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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