Re: signal and startup process

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-10-14T18:17:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Committed.

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 12:57 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It takes nonsensically extra several seconds to shut down the standby server.
> This is because the startup process cannot respond immediately the SIGTERM
> signal sent by postmaster for the shutdown while it's sleeping on WaitLatch.
> This delays the shutdown for up to the sleep time on WaitLatch (currently
> 5 seconds).
> 
> The signal handlers of the startup process should call SetLatch to respond
> the signals even while it's sleeping on WaitLatch, like those of walsender
> already do. The attached patch does this.
> 
> Regards,
> 

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