Re: Spinlocks and compiler/memory barriers

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:08:04AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On 2014-09-04 14:19:47 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> Yes. I plan to push the patch this weekend. Sorry for the delay.
> >
> > I'm about to push this. Is it ok to first push it to master and only
> > backpatch once a couple buildfarm cycles haven't complained?
>
> That will have the disadvantage that src/tools/git_changelog will show
> the commits separately instead of grouping them together; so it's
> probably best not to make a practice of it. But I think it's up to
> your discretion how to handle it in any particular case.

Uh, git_changelog timespan check is 24 hours, so if the delay is less
then 24 hours, I think we are ok, e.g.:

# Might want to make this parameter user-settable.
my $timestamp_slop = 24 * 60 * 60;

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