Re: walreceiver is uninterruptible on win32 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: walreceiver is uninterruptible on win32
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Msg-id j2x603c8f071004161847r4c11fb01yfbdcdbe4b45c07f9@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: walreceiver is uninterruptible on win32  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have to admit to finding this confusing.  According to the comments:
>>
>> +               /*
>> +                * Don't emulate the PQexec()'s behavior of returning the last
>> +                * result when there are many, since walreceiver never sends a
>> +                * query returning multiple results.
>> +                */
>>
>> ...but it looks like the code actually is implementing some sort of
>> loop-that-returns-the-last result.
>
> Yeah, it's not a very accurate description. And I found another problem:
> libpqrcv_PQexec() ends as soon as an error result arrives even if its
> state has not been PGASYNC_IDLE yet.
>
> So I changed libpqrcv_PQexec() so that it emulates the PQexec()'s behavior
> except the concatenation of error messages. How about the attached patch?

Well, the comment definitely makes more sense in this version.  I
can't speak to the behavior.

...Robert


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