On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 12:40 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I think it also provides the (valuable!) check that spinlocks were actually
> initialized. But that again seems like something we'd be better off adding
> more general infrastructure for - nobody runs --disable-spinlocks locally, we
> shouldn't need to run this on the buildfarm to find problems like this.
+1. It sucks to have to do special builds to catch a certain kind of
problem. I know I've been guilty of that (ahem, debug_parallel_query
f/k/a force_parallel_mode) but I'm not going to put it on my CV as one
of my great accomplishments. It's much better if we can find a way for
a standard 'make check-world' to tell us about as many things as
possible, so that we don't commit and then find out.
--
Robert Haas
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