pgsql: Fix race condition in win32 signal handling. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From mha@postgresql.org (Magnus Hagander)
Subject pgsql: Fix race condition in win32 signal handling.
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Msg-id 20100131171627.68FB57541B9@cvs.postgresql.org
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Fix race condition in win32 signal handling.

There was a race condition where the receiving pipe could be closed by the
child thread if the main thread was pre-empted before it got a chance to
create a new one, and the dispatch thread ran to completion during that time.

One symptom of this is that rows in pg_listener could be dropped under
heavy load.

Analysis and original patch by Radu Ilie, with some small
modifications by Magnus Hagander.

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REL8_3_STABLE

Modified Files:
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    pgsql/src/backend/port/win32:
        signal.c (r1.20 -> r1.20.2.1)
        (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/port/win32/signal.c?r1=1.20&r2=1.20.2.1)

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