Re: s_lock_test no longer works - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: s_lock_test no longer works
Date
Msg-id 164062.1706114694@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to s_lock_test no longer works  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> I do wonder if we want to keep this around, given that it's been more
> than one year broken and nobody seems to have noticed, and the Meson
> build does not support the test as a target.

The last time it was broken, it took us multiple years to notice, too.
I'm not sure that that's a reason to remove the test scaffolding,
though.  You'd probably only really use it to smoke-test some new
spinlock assembly code, and how often does anyone do that anymore?

            regards, tom lane



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