On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:23 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> How necessary is this given the recent fixes to allow the stats file to
> be kept on a ramdisk?
I would prefer this approach and back-out the other change.
On-demand is cheaper and easier to use.
> > Attached is a WIP patch, which basically implements this:
>
> This patch breaks deadlock checking and statement_timeout, because
> backends already use SIGALRM. You can't just take over that signal.
> It's possible that you could get things to work by treating this as an
> additional reason for SIGALRM, but that code is unreasonably complex
> already. I'd suggest finding some other way.
There are other ways already in use in backend, so just use those.
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