Re: Make pgbench exit on SIGINT more reliably - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tristan Partin
Subject Re: Make pgbench exit on SIGINT more reliably
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Msg-id CSZORAWZRLQM.39GWAN7YKK9OJ@c3po
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In response to Re: Make pgbench exit on SIGINT more reliably  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: Make pgbench exit on SIGINT more reliably
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On Tue May 23, 2023 at 7:31 PM CDT, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 10:02:02AM -0500, Tristan Partin wrote:
> > The way that pgbench handled SIGINT changed in
> > 1d468b9ad81b9139b4a0b16b416c3597925af4b0. Unfortunately this had a
> > couple of unintended consequences, at least from what I can tell[1].
> >
> > - CTRL-C no longer stops the program unless the right point in pgbench
> >   execution is hit
> > - pgbench no longer exits with a non-zero exit code
> >
> > An easy reproduction of these problems is to run with a large scale
> > factor like: pgbench -i -s 500000. Then try to CTRL-C the program.
>
> This comes from the code path where the data is generated client-side,
> and where the current CancelRequested may not be that responsive,
> isn't it?

Yes, that is exactly it. There is only a single check for
CancelRequested in the client-side data generation at the moment.

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Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)



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