[Pkg-postgresql-private] Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#225729: postgresql_7.4.1-1(hppa/unstable): FTBFS: no spinlock support

[Oliver Elphick]

On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:24, Martin Pitt wrote:
> On 2003-12-31 18:22 -0700, lamont@debian.org wrote:
> > Package: postgresql
> > Version: 7.4.1-1
> > Severity: serious
> > > ../../../../src/include/storage/s_lock.h:543:2: #error PostgreSQL does not have native spinlock support on this platform. To continue the compilation, rerun configure using --disable-spinlocks. However, performance will be poor. Please report this to pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org.
> 
> Oliver, did you already forward this to upstream? In the meantime we
> could disable spinlocks on hppa (which up to now is the only platform
> where this problem occurs) and upload a new version.

Yes, I'm discussing it with Tom Lane (on pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org).

I would prefer to do a proper fix for this, since a version with
spinlocks disabled will be horrendously slow.  However, upstream will
not do an official fix for this in case it breaks the current stable
version for other platforms, so we'll have to do a Debian-only fix.

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