On December 21, 2014 7:23:27 PM CET, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> On my blog Peter Geoghegan mentioned something about "atomic >fetch-and-add" >> being useful here, but I'm not quite sure what that's referring to. >Perhaps >> someone can give me a pointer. > >The point, I think, is that without atomic instructions you have to >hold >a lock while incrementing the counters.
Port/atomics.h provides a abstraction for doing such atomic manipulations. Andres --- Please excuse brevity and formatting - I am writing this on my mobile phone. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
