I think you've fixed it. With your patch, and a simple $ ./configure $ make $ make check # make install
the check works and all tests (except geometry on floating point stuff) pass; and after installing, I can really hammer the server and it doesn't hang. Looks like users on Yellow Dog Linux multi-CPU PowerPC platforms won't have this problem anymore ... that is, when the next person besides me decides to try it. :-) This whole exercise was well worth my time, and I get the added bonus of not having to switch machines. I know you spent a lot of time on it and I greatly appreciate your care and responsiveness. Many thanks - feel free to ask me to check anything else on this platform you would like to see. David On Friday, Sep 20, 2002, at 20:40 US/Eastern, Tom Lane wrote: > Well, the long and the short of it seems to be that no one before you > ever tried to run Postgres on a multi-CPU PowerPC machine :-( > > Some digging around on the net made it clear that we were missing > synchronization instructions that are critical for access to shared > memory in a multi-CPU system. I have applied the attached patch to > CVS tip (7.3beta2-almost). It looks like it will apply cleanly to > 7.2.*, so please try it out (with optimization re-enabled) and let > us know what you see! [snip] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
