On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> There's some race conditions with the signaling. If another process finishes
> XLOG flush and sends the signal when a walsender has just finished one
> iteration of its main loop, walsender will reset xlogsend_requested and go
> to sleep. It should not sleep but send the pending WAL immediately.
Yep. To avoid that race condition, xlogsend_requested should be reset to
false after sleep and before calling XLogSend(). I attached the updated
version of the patch.
Of course, the code is also available in my git repository:
git://git.postgresql.org/git/users/fujii/postgres.git
branch: wakeup-walsnd
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
