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Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2010-09-12T18:26:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 14:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Uh, this is nonsense.  You have to have something like these functions
> to support transferring ownership of a latch from one process to
> another, which is required at least for the walreceiver usage.

Oh, I see. It's needed to know where to send the signal, of course.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis