Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie mar 18 14:25:16 -0300 2011:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > SyncRepUpdateSyncStandbysDefined() is added into walwriter, which means
> > waiters won't be released if we do a sighup during a fast shutdown,
> > since the walwriter gets killed as soon as that starts. I'm thinking
> > bgwriter should handle that now.
>
> Hmm. I was thinking that doing it in WAL writer would make it more
> responsive, but since this is a fairly unlikely scenario, it's
> probably not worth complicating the shutdown sequence to do it the way
> I did. I'll move it to bgwriter.
Can't they both do it?
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