Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Wong <markw@osdl.org> writes:
> > I know where the do_sigaction is coming from in this particular case.
> > Manfred Spraul tracked it to a pair of pgsignal calls in libpq.
> > Commenting out those two calls out virtually eliminates do_sigaction from
> > the kernel profile for this workload.
>
> Hmm, I suppose those are the ones associated with suppressing SIGPIPE
> during send(). It looks to me like those should go away in 8.0 if you
> have compiled with ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY ... exactly how is PG being
> built in the current round of tests?
Yes, those calls are gone in 8.0 with --enable-thread-safety and were
added specifically because of Manfred's reports.
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