Re: Hardwired MAXBACKENDS limit could be history - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Hardwired MAXBACKENDS limit could be history
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Msg-id 3924.980544816@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to RE: Hardwired MAXBACKENDS limit could be history  ("Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>)
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"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM> writes:
>> What I'd like to look at sometime soon is using POSIX semaphores
>> instead of SysV semaphores.  But we need stateful semaphores,
>> not signals.

> Conditional variables seem to be more portable

Really?  Which standard are they specified in?

I have no intention of removing the SysV sem support, mind you;
I just think it might be good to have an alternative implementation
that relies on a more modern standard ...
        regards, tom lane


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