Re: [RFC] Should smgrtruncate() avoid sending sinval message for temp relations - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-08-12 11:56:41 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Yes.  Do you have a back-patchable solution for that?

> The easiest thing I can think of is sprinkling a few
> SetConfigOption('synchronous_commit', 'off',
>                 PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_OVERRIDE,
>                 GUC_ACTION_LOCAL, true, ERROR);

This still seems to me to be applying a band-aid that covers over some
symptoms; it's not dealing with the root cause that we've overloaded
the signal handling mechanism too much.   What reason is there to think
that there are no other symptoms of that?
        regards, tom lane