Re: pg_basebackup throttling doesn't throttle as promised

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Jeff Janes wrote:
> 
> > I'm attaching a patch for each option.  Each one independently solves the
> > problem.  But I think we should do both.  There is no point in issuing
> > unnecessary kill system calls, and there may also be more spurious wake-ups
> > than just these ones.
> 
> I modified patch 1 a bit -- result attached.  I would like to back-patch
> this all the way back to 9.4, but there are a few conflicts due to
> c29aff959dc so I think I'm going to do pg10 only unless I get some votes
> that it should go further back.  I think it should be fairly trivial to
> resolve.

Pushed patch 1 to master and pg10.

Please add the other one to commitfest.

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