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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: installing postgresql 8.1.4
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Msg-id 24855.1158707579@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to installing postgresql 8.1.4  (Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>)
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Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> writes:
> I can ./configure --disable-spinlocks with CFLAGS: -O2 -march=pentium4
> -fprefetch-loop-arrays.

--disable-spinlocks is broken in 8.1.*.  It took us a long time to
notice that, because no one in their right mind uses the option.
The performance cost is enormous.

            regards, tom lane

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