On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 5:36 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Maybe instead of thinking specifically in terms of vacuum, we could
> count buffer accesses (read from kernel) and check the latch once every
> 1000th such, or something like that. Then a very long query doesn't
> have to wait until it's run to completion. The cost is one integer
> addition per syscall, which should be bearable.
Interesting idea. One related case is where everything is fine on the
server side but the client has disconnected and we don't notice that
the socket has changed state until something makes us try to send a
message to the client, which might be a really long time if the
server's doing like a lengthy computation before generating any rows.
It would be really nice if we could find a cheap way to check for both
postmaster death and client disconnect every now and then, like if a
single system call could somehow answer both questions.
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Robert Haas
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