Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > We can't make shared memory work across machines.
>
> Actually, shared memory does work fine across some machines.
> Digital Unix clusters, for example....
OK, I didn't go into detail, but the issue is test-and-set assembler
instructions we use for light-weight locking. You can't tell me that
actually works on a cluster, can you?
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