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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?
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Msg-id 5589.1022165353@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
Responses Efficiency question: VARCHAR with empty string vs NULL
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"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> My 'standard' way of doing this is to loop while the error is EAGAIN
> but with a small retry counter to limit the number of attempts
> made. Hopefully the second time through the call isn't interrupted
> again.

I think you're thinking of EINTR, not EAGAIN.

            regards, tom lane

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