Re: sinval synchronization considered harmful - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: sinval synchronization considered harmful
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In response to Re: sinval synchronization considered harmful  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the real challenge is going to be testing.  If anyone has a
>> machine with weak memory ordering they can give me access to, that
>> would be really helpful for flushing the bugs out of this stuff.
>> Getting it to work on x86 is not the hard part.
>
> I believe there's a PPC box in our storage facility in NJ that we
> might be able to dig out for you. There's also a couple in our India
> office. Let me know if they'd be of help.

Yes!

More processors is better, of course, but having anything at all to
test on would be an improvement.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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