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Re: memory barriers (was: Yes, WaitLatch is vulnerable to weak-memory-ordering bugs)

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-09-22T15:44:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue sep 22 12:18:47 -0300 2011:

> I've also added a lengthy README file to the patch that attempts to
> explain how barriers should be used in PostgreSQL coding.

Very enlightening, thanks.  Note a typo "laods".

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