Re: An example of bugs for Hot Standby

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Hiroyuki Yamada <yamada@kokolink.net>
Date: 2010-01-20T09:35:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 06:30:28 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > Is there any supported platform with sizeof(sig_atomic_t) <4 - I would
> > doubt so?
> 
> Er ... what?  I believe there are live platforms with sig_atomic_t = char.
> If we're assuming more that's a must-fix.
So were assuming genereally that a integer cannot be read/written 
atomatically?
Or was that only relating to the actualy signal.h typedef?

Andres