On 21.11.2012 23:29, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera escribió:
>> FWIW I have pushed this to github; see
>> https://github.com/alvherre/postgres/compare/bgworker
>>
>> It's also attached.
>>
>> The UnBlockSig stuff is the main stumbling block as I see it because it
>> precludes compilation on Windows. Maybe we should fix that by providing
>> another function that the module is to call after initialization is done
>> and before it gets ready to work ... but having a function that only
>> calls PG_SETMASK() feels somewhat useless to me; and I don't see what
>> else we could do in there.
>
> I cleaned up some more stuff and here's another version. In particular
> I added wrapper functions to block and unblock signals, so that this
> doesn't need exported UnBlockSig.
Could you just unblock the signals before calling into the background
worker's main() function?
- Heikki
