Re: Our "fallback" atomics implementation doesn't actually work - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Our "fallback" atomics implementation doesn't actually work
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Msg-id 24585.1475694129@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Our "fallback" atomics implementation doesn't actually work  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Our "fallback" atomics implementation doesn't actually work  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Without yet having analyzed this deeply, could it actually be that the
> reason is that sem_post/wait aren't proper memory barriers?  On a glance
> the symptoms look like values have been modified without proper locks...

Hmm, possible ...
        regards, tom lane



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