Re: s_lock_test no longer works

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: s_lock_test no longer works
Date: 2024-01-24 16:44:54
Message-ID: 164062.1706114694@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> I do wonder if we want to keep this around, given that it's been more
> than one year broken and nobody seems to have noticed, and the Meson
> build does not support the test as a target.

The last time it was broken, it took us multiple years to notice, too.
I'm not sure that that's a reason to remove the test scaffolding,
though. You'd probably only really use it to smoke-test some new
spinlock assembly code, and how often does anyone do that anymore?

regards, tom lane

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