Re: WAL fsync scheduling

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-11-18T18:16:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >>>>> how about sigpause, and using SIGUSR1/SIGUSR2 to wake them up ? 
> 
> > The standard is sigsuspend:
> 
> OK, we can probably assume that at least one of sigsuspend or sigpause
> is available everywhere.  Now all you need is a free signal number.
> Unfortunately we're already using both SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2.

Oh, I didn't want to hear that one.

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