Re: s_lock_test no longer works

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2024-01-24 12:14:17 +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I do wonder if we want to keep this around, given that it's been more
>> than one year broken and nobody seems to have noticed, and the Meson
>> build does not support the test as a target.

> Perhaps we should just make the test built and run by default instead?  OTOH,
> regress.c:test_spinlock() actually covers about as much as the standalone
> test...

If your spinlocks aren't working, it's unlikely you'll get as far as
being able to run test_spinlock().  I think the standalone test does
have some value; it's just that it's not needed very often these days.

            regards, tom lane