Re: Synchronous replication: sleeping - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Synchronous replication: sleeping
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Msg-id 20081208114207.GE31566@svana.org
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In response to Synchronous replication: sleeping  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Synchronous replication: sleeping  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:12:39PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> If a signal is received just before pq_wait call, after checking
> replication_requested, pq_wait won't be interrupted and will wait up to
> a second before responding to it.
>
> BTW, on what platforms signal doesn't interrupt sleep?

In theory, none. SIGALRM is not set as SA_RESTART so any system call
should be interrupted. This applies to POSIX systems though, not sure
about Windows.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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