Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)
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Msg-id 4C738609.1020600@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On 24/08/10 04:08, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun ago 23 19:44:02 -0400 2010:
>> Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  writes:
>
>>> [ "latch" proposal ]
>>
>> This seems reasonably clean as far as signal conditions generated
>> internally to Postgres go, but I remain unclear on how it helps for
>> response to actual signals.
>
> This could probably replace the signalling between postmaster and
> autovac launcher, as well.

Hmm, postmaster needs to stay out of shared memory..

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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