Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-07-03 20:08:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I do still feel that HPPA is of interest, to keep us honest
>> about spinlock support
> I.e. forgetting to initialize them? Or the weird alignment stuff it has?
The nonzero initialization mainly, and to a lesser extent the weird
size of a lock. I think the fact that the active word is only part
of the lock struct is pretty well encapsulated.
> I'd started to work a patch to detect missing initialization for both
> spinlocks and lwlocks, I think that'd be good to have for more common cases.
No objection to having more than one check for this ;-)
regards, tom lane
