Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2024-01-24 12:14:17 +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> I do wonder if we want to keep this around, given that it's been more >> than one year broken and nobody seems to have noticed, and the Meson >> build does not support the test as a target.
> Perhaps we should just make the test built and run by default instead? OTOH, > regress.c:test_spinlock() actually covers about as much as the standalone > test... If your spinlocks aren't working, it's unlikely you'll get as far as being able to run test_spinlock(). I think the standalone test does have some value; it's just that it's not needed very often these days. regards, tom lane