Hi,
15 19:48:23 +0900 (Tokyo Standard Time), Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote in
<20150210.194823.219136034.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
> Considering pg_basebackup/receivexlog, the loop in receivelog.c
> does not maintain the time value within it, so I think we are
> forced to use feGetCurrentTimeStamp if not using SIGALRM. The wal
> reading function simply gets the data from the buffer in memory
> for most calls so the gettimeofday for each iteration could slow
> the process significantly. SIGALRM seems to be valuable for the
> case.
As a very fancy and ugly sample, the attached patch does this,
although, I'm a bit at a loss how to make this signal things to
be more sober..
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
