On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie mar 18 14:25:16 -0300 2011:
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
>> > SyncRepUpdateSyncStandbysDefined() is added into walwriter, which means
>> > waiters won't be released if we do a sighup during a fast shutdown,
>> > since the walwriter gets killed as soon as that starts. I'm thinking
>> > bgwriter should handle that now.
>>
>> Hmm. I was thinking that doing it in WAL writer would make it more
>> responsive, but since this is a fairly unlikely scenario, it's
>> probably not worth complicating the shutdown sequence to do it the way
>> I did. I'll move it to bgwriter.
>
> Can't they both do it?
Yeah, but it seems fairly pointless. In retrospect, I probably should
have done it the way Simon is proposing to begin with.
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