Re: [PATCHES] Re: [HACKERS] new patches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Re: [HACKERS] new patches
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Msg-id 199911292225.RAA15312@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] new patches  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] Re: [HACKERS] new patches  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom, any comment on this?


> Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it> writes:
> > Two small patches:
> > 1)    make default NBuffers = DEF_MAXBACKENDS*2 as required by check in
> >     PostmasterMain().
> 
> I had proposed moving NDBUFS into config.h and fixing the default a few
> days ago, but then forgot to do it.  As things stand, if you increase
> DEF_MAXBACKENDS at configure time, you'll get a postmaster that won't
> start unless you give it a -B setting larger than default.  This is bad,
> and I agree with Massimo that we ought to make sure the default NBuffers
> is one that will work with the default MaxBackends.
> 
> This patch is not quite right though, since it doesn't account for the
> other part of PostmasterMain's condition (NBuffers >= 16).  Will fix.
> 
> > 2)    check for QueryCancel in the copy command. Maybe we should do the
> >     same in vacuum command (Vadim?). 
> 
> I'm not too excited about adding QueryCancel support so soon before the
> release, but the part of your patch that you didn't mention (diking out
> the "file_opened" hack) is really a critical fix --- as the code stood
> it would try to fclose() the same stdio file twice, which is disastrous
> in most stdio libraries.  I applied that part of it... good catch!
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
> 


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