On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:55, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > This may be a moot point, since you've stated that changing the loop timing
> > won't solve the problem, but what about making the test part of make? I
> > don't think too many systems are going to change processor architectures once
> > in production, and those that do can be told to re-compile.
>
> Having to recompile to run on single- vs dual-processor machines doesn't
> seem like it would fly.
Is it something the postmaster could quickly determine and set a global
during the startup cycle?
