Hi,
Tom Lane wrote:
> No, that's not what I had in mind at all, just the ability to deliver
> one of a specified set of event notifications --- ie, get around the
> fact that Unix only gives us two user-definable signal types.
Ah, okay. And I already thought you'd like imessages :-(
> For signals sent from other backends, it'd be sufficient to put a
> bitmask field into PGPROC entries, which the sender could OR bits into
> before sending the one "real" signal event (either SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2).
That might work for expanding the number of available signals, yes.
Regards
Markus Wanner
