Re: group locking: incomplete patch, just for discussion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: group locking: incomplete patch, just for discussion
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Msg-id CA+TgmobxPPj3ntXoYk+RtTfVc8HN1pW=bAdQ=KoN565FLzC=WQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: group locking: incomplete patch, just for discussion  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: group locking: incomplete patch, just for discussion  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I doubt it. There's a whole bunch of problems that just exist by virtue
> of having a group leader. What if the leader dies but the worker backend
> isn't in a section of code that does a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS()?

In between all of the heat about whether I'm writing the correct
patch, or whether I'm overall making progress fast enough, somebody
could, I don't know, read the patch.

-- 
Robert Haas
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