Markus Wanner <mar...@bluegap.ch> writes: > Well, that certainly doesn't apply to full fences, that are not specific > to a particular piece of memory. I'm thinking of 'mfence' on x86_64 or > 'mf' on ia64.
Hm, what do those do exactly? We've never had any such thing in the Intel-ish spinlock asm, but if out-of-order writes are possible I should think we'd need 'em. Or does "lock xchgb" imply an mfence? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers