Replying to a pgsql-committers email by CC'ing hackers

What is the recommended procedure for replying to a pgsql-committers
messsage? Is cross-posting to hackers really the right approach, as it
causes duplicate messages. (pgsql-committers CC removed.)

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:38:56AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2016-04-12 16:49:25 +0000, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > On a big NUMA machine with 1000 connections in saturation load
> > there was a performance regression due to spinlock contention, for
> > acquiring values which were never used. Just fill with dummy
> > values if we're not going to use them.
>
> FWIW, I could see massive regressions with just 64 connections.
>
> I'm a bit scared of having an innoccuous sounding option regress things
> by a factor of 10. I think, in addition to this fix, we need to actually
> solve the scalability issue here to a good degree. One way to do so is
> to apply the parts of 0001 in
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20160330230914.GH13305%40awork2.anarazel.de
> defining PG_HAVE_8BYTE_SINGLE_COPY_ATOMICITY and rely on that. Another
> to apply the whole patch and simply put the lsn in an 8 byte atomic.
>
> - Andres
>
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