Re: 8.0 beta 1 on linux-mipsel R5900

Tom Lane wrote:
> > If that's not worth the trouble, would it be a good idea to have
> > configure disable spinlocks automagically on unsupported platforms?
>
> It used to do that.  We deliberately changed this in 8.0 so that
> people would be aware that they were losing performance, and would be
> motivated to look into possible solutions.

Actually, the previous port report for 7.4 already required explicit 
disabling:
   needs new config.guess, --disable-spinlocks 

(We fixed that first point anyway.)

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Peter Eisentraut
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