When grilled further on (Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:09:11 -0700),
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> confessed:
>
> Did you build 8.0.3 yourself, or install it from packages? I've seen in
> the past where pg would build with the wrong kind of mutexes on some
> machines, and that would send the CS through the roof. If you did build
> it yourself, check your ./configure logs. If not, try strace.
I always build PG from source. I did check the config.log command line
(./configure) and they were similar enough. The system has not changed between
building the two versions (if it ain't broke...).
Cheers,
Rob
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