Re: [PATCH] lock_timeout and common SIGALRM framework - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Excerpts from Boszormenyi Zoltan's message of mié jul 04 07:03:44 -0400 2012:
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> 2012-07-03 23:38 keltezéssel, Alvaro Herrera írta:
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> > I don't understand why PGSemaphoreTimedLock() is not broken.  I mean
> > surely you need a bool return to let the caller know whether the
> > acquisition succeeded or failed?
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> Well, this is the same interface PGSemaphoreTryLock() uses.
> By this reasoning, it's also broken.

Eh, no -- as far as I can see, PGSemaphoreTryLock returns a boolean,
which is precisely my point.

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