Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> While it might not be required for existing latch uses (I'm *not* sure
> that's true), I still think that we should fix those XXX by actually
> using barriers now that we have them. I don't think we want every
> callsite worry about using barriers.
> Agreed?
Yeah, now that we have barrier code we think works, we should definitely
put some in there. The only reason it's like that is we didn't have
any real barrier support at the time.
regards, tom lane