On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 2013-11-21 09:08:05 -0600, Merlin Moncure wrote: >> This code is in a very hot code path. Are we *sure* that the read >> barrier is fast enough that we don't want to provide an alternate >> function that only returns the local flag? I don't know enough about >> them to say either way. > > A read barrier is just a compiler barrier on x86.
That's good enough for me then. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers