> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: 13 September 2005 23:03
> To: Marko Kreen
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Spinlocks, yet again: analysis and
> proposed patches
>
> I'm starting to think that we might have to succumb to having
> a compile
> option "optimize for multiprocessor" or "optimize for single
> processor".
> It's pretty hard to see how we'd alter a data structure decision like
> this on the fly.
That would be a major pita for packagers of binary distributions.
Regards, Dave.