Re: stray SIGALRM - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: stray SIGALRM
Date
Msg-id 6734.1371349967@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: stray SIGALRM  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> Is there really serious overhead from using latches..?

IIRC there's at least one gettimeofday() involved in WaitLatch.  There
are platforms on which that already costs more than you want to spend
for, say, CommitDelay.
        regards, tom lane



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