On 2015-01-12 12:49:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > On 2015-01-12 11:03:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Yeah, now that we have barrier code we think works, we should definitely > >> put some in there. The only reason it's like that is we didn't have > >> any real barrier support at the time. > > > Master only though? If we decide we need it earlier, we can backport > > that commit lateron... > > We've not been back-patching barrier fixes have we?
Not fully at least. And I'm not sure that's good, because at least bgworker.c has relied on working barriers for a while and 9.4 introduced a couple more uses. I guess we should fix up the backbranch versions in a while. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers