[HACKERS] Re: Alpha tas() patch

[Tom Lane]

Brent Verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> another loop-free version of TAS that /seems/ to work as desired.

Since it doesn't check to see if the stq_c succeeded, it can't possibly
be right...

> WRT to your seeing the shutdown lock failure, what are you doing to
> provoke this bug?

"pg_ctl stop".

I am wondering if the machine I am testing on is different from yours.
I know there are multiple revisions of Alpha hardware out there; is
there a way to test which mask rev is running a particular machine?

                        regards, tom lane