Use signals for postmaster death on Linux.
Linux provides a way to ask for a signal when your parent process dies.
Use that to make PostmasterIsAlive() very cheap.
Based on a suggestion from Andres Freund.
Author: Thomas Munro, Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7261eb39-0369-f2f4-1bb5-62f3b6083b5e%40iki.fi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180411002643.6buofht4ranhei7k%40alap3.anarazel.de
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9f09529952ac41a10e5874cba745c1c24e67ac79
Modified Files
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configure | 2 +-
configure.in | 2 +-
src/backend/storage/ipc/latch.c | 6 +-
src/backend/storage/ipc/pmsignal.c | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c | 4 ++
src/include/pg_config.h.in | 3 +
src/include/pg_config.h.win32 | 3 +
src/include/storage/pmsignal.h | 33 +++++++++-
8 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
