Re: Reorganization of spinlock defines

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I guess we could splatter a test for Itanium and Opterion in every port
> that could possibly use it, but then again, if we fall back to not
> finding it for some reason, we don't get a report because we silently
> fall back to semaphores. That's what has me worried, that if we don't
> do it, we will not know what platforms really aren't working properly.

Agreed, the silent fallback to semaphores isn't such a hot idea in
hindsight. But the part of the patch that requires a configure option
to use that code path could be applied without touching anything else.

regards, tom lane