Re: [Fwd: Bug#149056: postgresql: should not try in a busy - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> forwards:
> > When trying to create a semaphore Postgresql 7.2.1-3 will try 400,000 times=
> >  per
> > second if it has problems.
> 
> AFAICS it will try *once* and abort if it fails.  Can you provide a
> reproducible test case for the above behavior?

I assume he meant tries to grab a semaphore 400,000 times, but I may be wrong.

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