Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> It's not quite there yet, unfortunately. At the moment
> pg_atomic_write_u32() is used for local buffers - and we explicitly
> don't want that to be locking for temp buffers
> (c.f. 6b93fcd149329d4ee7319561b30fc15a573c6307).
Hm.
> Don't really have a great idea about addressing this, besides either
> just living with the lock for temp buffers on fallback platforms (which
> don't have much of a practical relevance), or introduce
> pg_atomic_unlocked_write_u32() or something. Neither seems great.
Maybe we could hack it with some macro magic that would cause
pg_atomic_write_u32() to be expanded into a simple assignment in
localbuf.c only?
regards, tom lane
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