Re: Problem on AIX with current - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
Subject Re: Problem on AIX with current
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Msg-id 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA41EB39B@m0114.s-mxs.net
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In response to Problem on AIX with current  (Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>)
Responses Re: Problem on AIX with current
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> Per Tom's request(1000 concurrent backends), I tried current on IBM
> AIX 5L and found that make check hungs:
> 
> parallel group (13 tests): float4 oid varchar
> 
> pgbench hungs too if more than 4 or so concurrent backends are
> involved.

I once had hangs during make check on AIX 4, but after make distclean
and 
rebuild was never able to reproduce.

Can you read the man page for cs(3), AIX 4 sais it is not recommended
suggests to use compare_and_swap, maybe AIX 5 has more to say ?

> Unfortunately gdb does not work well on AIX, so I'm stucked.
> Maybe a new locking code?

Use dbx (and ddd) ?

I don't have access to AIX 5.

Andreas


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