On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Right, though I am not sure people will know _slow_ configuration vs. > >> PostgreSQL is slow. > > > No, but definitely something for those discussion performance to add > > to their checklist :) > > > BTW, post-compile, running system ... how do you check this? Or can you? > > If we force people to give a --without-spinlocks config option to build > that way, then `pg_config --configure' will reveal the dirty deed ... That's not quite what I meant :) Right now, if I understood what Bruce was saying, if someone doesn't have spinlocks, it switches to using SysV Messenging, correct? In the current system, is there anything that one can do on a running, live system, to detect that you aren't using spinlocks? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly