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Re: Recovery control functions

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-01-14T12:01:07Z
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On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 13:47 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 14.01.2011 13:15, Simon Riggs wrote:
> >  /*
> > + * Recheck shared recoveryPause by polling.
> > + *
> > + * XXX It might seem we should do this via a shared Latch, but
> > + * currently we only support one shared latch per process and
> > + * that is already taken for Startup process. Polling is used
> > + * in other places in xlog.c already, so not a concern.
> > + */
> 
> There is no such limitation with latches.

SIGUSR1 handler can only handle one shared latch

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