Patch applied. Thanks.
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Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 23:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:
> > > This is the strace of a process which is deleting rows from four tables,
> > > inside a transaction, one row at a time. There are a lot of semops for
> > > every i/o. There are about 30 connections to this database currently.
> > > I thought deletes in a transaction just flew along in Pg, because they
> > > simply wrote the deleted transaction ID on the record. It used to work
> > > fine in my previous locally-built 7.2 on Debian, but this is 7.2.2 on
> > > SuSE Enterprise Server 8.2.
> >
> > The first thing that comes to mind is that the thing is using SysV
> > semaphores as a substitute for spinlocks. If this is on a hardware
> > platform that is supposed to have TAS() support in s_lock.h or s_lock.c,
> > then it's a configuration or build error. If it's on some heretofore
> > unknown platform, you need to write some TAS() code to get decent
> > performance.
>
> It looks like a simple change in s_lock.h from
>
> #if defined(__i386__)
>
> to
>
> #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
>
> Will be necessary for this platform.
>
> Thanks,
> jwb
>
>
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