Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Maybe we can do something like this,

> +#if MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF >= 8
>      uint64        currval;

This should probably be testing the alignment of int64 specifically,
rather than assuming that MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF applies to it.  At least
historically, there have been platforms where MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF is
determined by float quantities and integer quantities are different.

            regards, tom lane