Re: [HACKERS] Unportable implementation of background worker start - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Unportable implementation of background worker start
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Msg-id 9919.1493072444@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Unportable implementation of background worker start  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2017-04-24 18:14:41 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> A bit of googling establishes that NetBSD 5.1 has a broken pselect
>> implementation:
>> 
>> http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=43625

> Yikes.  Do I understand correctly that they effectively just mapped
> pselect to select?

That's what it sounds like.  Probably not intentionally, but in effect.

>> What I'm inclined to do is to revert the pselect change but not the other,
>> to see if that fixes these two animals.  If it does, we could look into
>> blacklisting these particular platforms when choosing pselect.

> Seems sensible.

Will do.
        regards, tom lane



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